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...medieval chapters Author Kirstein makes much of the fanatic Dance of Death which he calls a tombstone to medieval mentality. It was at the time of plagues that Death appeared as "a graveyard ghoul, a chilling spectral horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children whistling past cemeteries." Its influence was tremendous. When the bubonic scourge swept Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely...
...brawny, curly-haired, snub-nosed young man who learned golf on a course built on the site of a Chinese graveyard near Tientsin, where his father was stationed as an Army officer, Lawson Little has given so much time to his game that at 25 he is still a Stanford undergraduate. His salient talent as a golfer is power. Where his game differs from that of most long hitters is that he utilizes the advantage his wood shots give him by superlative iron play and putting...
Whence your information that Charles Francis Adams, Boston sports promoter (TIME, Aug. 19), is "distant cousin of onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams?" Look in the graveyard of any Boston newspaper to see if he is not a Jew whose name was changed by court decree, to the disgust of blue-blooded descendants of the second and sixth Presidents...
...victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister to Rumania. But Mr. Mitchell did not want to leave the Department of Commerce, hung on there from week to week by repeatedly promising Secretary Roper that very shortly he would produce evidence of serious departmental irregularities. This went on for nine...
...Army doctor, he had learned golf on a course laid out on the site of a Chinese graveyard near Tientsin where his father was stationed eleven years ago. He began to play seriously when his father returned to the U. S. In 1927, he took to entering major tournaments and in 1929, at 18, accomplished his first noteworthy feat by beating Johnny Goodman who had just beaten Bobby Jones, in the U.S. Amateur. Last year he won the British Amateur at Prestwick, after the most one-sided final in the tournament's history when, against a frightened Troon carpenter...