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When a cheering crowd finally let him leave the green after 30 minutes, Chapman explained how he had finally broken his jinx: "I owe it all to Ben Hogan. He taught me to shift my right hand and cured me of hooking my irons. I changed my grip just before I came over here." Added beaming Dick Chapman: "I've been waiting a long time to say this is the happiest day of my life...
...will, a pretty wife, and perhaps a few funny stories. Potter, product of an older and more cynical order, is convinced that all social intercourse is in fact a merciless jungle struggle, where the weaker will be gobbled up like an anchovy canape by the man with the firmer grip on the conversation and the Martini glass. In his scholarly The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Evolutionist Potter brought this insight to bear on sport; in Some Notes on Lifemanship, which might well be subtitled...
...Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...
...Word & Suffering. Berggrav's book closes with a dramatic lecture which was illegally distributed in Norway during the Nazi occupation. Citing text after Lutheran text, it effectively scotches the theory that Luther enjoined obedience to all governments, whether good or bad. In the grip of a state he knows to be evil, there is only one thing Christians can do -speak out and suffer the consequences...
...interested in is profit, and so they take steps to control the wealth of the country ... A country may appear to be free and independent if you consult geography or an atlas. But if you will look behind the veil, you will find that it is in the grip of another country, or rather of its bankers and big businessmen . . ." When India got its independence, Nehru was braced to resist the onslaught of rapacious U.S. business. When it did not come, he was more chagrined than relieved. One of the reasons for his 1949 trip...