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...England, to visit Australia. The Australians frankly wanted Champion Budge, a great one for form, to be seen and perhaps imitated by up & coming Australian tennists, of whom there are many. The U. S. L. T. A., feeling that Donald Budge could stand the gaff, acquiesced...
...raised to $350,000. It is now apparent that the final cost of the building will be nearer $450.000. This sort of thing has happened often in Wright's career, and the hostile argument runs that few businessmen are as able as rich Mr. Johnson to stand the gaff of perfectionism at like cost...
...TIME'S Managing Editor John Stuart Martin: the North American tuna record ; by bringing to gaff an 821-pounder off Liverpool, Nova Scotia. U. S. sportsmen penetrated these old market fishing grounds three years ago, attracted by reports that the giant, powerful "horse mackerel" grew big and were more plentiful there than anywhere else. Previous Liverpool and North American record was a 788-pounder caught last August by Dr. John R. ("Goat Gland") Brinkley of Del Rio, Texas. Last month Mrs. Earl Potter of Brookville, L. I. won the women's world record there with a 757-pounder...
...last week) : Up Seattle's Queen Anne Hill and into a lavatory in Kinnear Park playground marches Relentless Regan. On the backs of envelopes he pencils two notes: "I can't stand the gaff." "I am crazy." Then Relentless Regan, within earshot of a group of laughing children, pumps a bullet into his brain...
...Harvard won the Compton regatta early in the year, any doubts as to the ability of Coach Tom Bolles to develop a winning sprint crew were dissolved, and all that he has to prove now is that he can change them back into a boat which can withstand the gaff of a four-mile grind and come up the winner as well as they have during their spring races...