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...Mamaroneck, N. Y., Cyril Walker, National Open Champion, and Joe Kirkwood, famed Australian freak-shot maker, gave golfdom cause for mild astonishment by failing to qualify for the Professional Golf Association Championship Tournament to be held at French Lick, Ind., Sept. 14 to 20. Fifteen district qualifying rounds were going on throughout the country to determine a field of 64 starters for this event. The Metropolitan District, for example, was allotted 14 places to fill and 150 applicants teed off for 36 holes at the Quaker Ridge Course. Low score...
...first decided to call the freak a "liger" (TIME, July 7), but the Zoo declined to stand for it. It was found that the hybrid was not the child of a lion and tigress, but of a tiger and lioness. Amid plaudits from animals it was decided to call the infant hybrid a "Tigon...
...Pomeroy has mentioned the comment of an American who said that the main difference between the United States and England was that in this country a "dummy" was preferred to a "freak". If in this case a "dummy" means one of a not too intelligent, standardized group, and a "freak" means an individual who rises above the mass because of his peculiar talents, the indictment must stand unanswered. The encouragement of individual genius at the expense of quantity production, particularly in the American university, is not one of the nation's virtues. In fact it may fairly he said that...
...Mineola, N. Y., at a "freak animal show," Jack Johnson, "monkey-faced mule," kicked Rosie, cow, in the throat. Rosie was a freak because her heart was located in her throat, its pulsations plainly visible. Kicked in the heart, she died...
...found that, like Pandora's box, they contained many troubles and a ray of hope. There were only about 20 bids. Of that number, four at first sight seemed fairly satisfactory; about the same number, as Chairman Lasker expressed it, were in "the twilight zone"; there was one freak bid of $1,000,000,000 for the entire fleet; and a dozen or so bids that seemed manifestly unsatisfactory...