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...Africa Speaks which would qualify for inclusion: a swarm of locusts darkening the skies, covering the ground six inches deep, dispersing a herd of gnu, eating all the foliage off a tree; a lion killing a native boy in a scene which (if not faked) is one of the grimmest ever judged fit for public release; a strange kind of antelope called the illampa jumping 40 ft. through the air in slow motion; flamingoes goose-stepping through a marsh. Most of the other episodes, though fairly interesting, are stencils. The incidental sound effects are supposed to have been recorded...
John Norton Smith is an extremely dour Scot from Fifeshire where normally he is a carpenter*. No brilliance attends his game but only the grimmest determination. His idiosyncrasies: chalking the face of his wooden clubs with blue chalk, waxing the handle of his irons before the difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare...
...undergraduate defeat is a serious matter. To the graduate, it is the grimmest of tragedy. The undergraduate has ample company in his misery. Everyone he meets commiserates the general misfortune, and his spirits are bound to rise in response to such universal sympathy. Not so the graduate. At the club, in the office, on the street, friend Smith from Yale, and Jones from Princeton and even Brown from some small Western college, triumph over him. They tease him, they heap ridicule upon him, and all in all, make his life miserable. Small wonder that his ago takes refuge in complaint...