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...SHALLOW END-Major Ian Hay Beith-Houghton, Mifflin ($3.00). This book is dedicated to "the average British crowd"-God bless its sensible heart! Stimulated by the thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused...
...performance was competent: his third round, though not brilliant, brought him within one stroke of the leader- Barnes. The golfers set out on the fourth round, attended by a great gallery which often cheered the. admirable shots of Diegel as those of a player who was making a gallant and unlikely attempt at last-round victory. Diegel, unruffled, turned in a card of 67,* broke the course record, won the Florida Open. His score for the 72 holes was 286. Barnes 288, was second; Loos 292, third; Hagen 293, fourth. The others straggled after. Diegel's monetary reward...
...locked. They peered through the window. Representatives of the press who came up at that moment peered over their shoulders. In the dim light, on the floor of the quiet interior, they beheld unmistakable fragments-the torn limbs, the broken heads of Generals Lee, Jackson and their gallant soldiers, bits of plaster, pieces of stone. They had come too late...
...seconds under the record made by Ray two years ago. Ray started in the race. At the end of the third lap, pressing his hand to his side in the fashion of one stricken with a cramp, he dropped out. "Boo," went the gallery. But the gallant Ray, having many times given proof of his courage, trotted heedless to the locker rooms...
...declared that the gallant officers of the army in Morocco had also been slandered by the now notorious novelist...