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Against the champions of the other 47 states (and Cuba), Florida's Joan Pflueger of North Miami handled her 12-gauge gun with the ease of an old infantryman. From a 16-yd. handicap mark, blonde, self-contained Joan "smoked" (shattered to dust) 100 straight clay pigeons. That gave her a tie with four others. In a 75-bird shoot-off, Joan tightened up a bit: she missed one. The others missed more. Joan won by one shot from sharpshooting Texas Champion Dean Blank...
Later that day, lanky, bespectacled Baudouin (who despite his spindle-thin appearance has a golf handicap of 6) drove to Parliament. Created lieutenant general in the Belgian army by his father, he wore a bright new olive-drab uniform with the wide purple Grand cordon de I'ordre de Léopold across his chest. The thousands of cheering people and his heavy guard of honor plainly embarrassed him. Entering the Chamber of Representatives, he had difficulty managing his sword in its gold scabbard, and fumbled the salutes...
...20th Century-Fox) is a Negro-problem picture. A late starter-the first of its kind came out a year ago-it is good enough to overcome that handicap. It may not be the best of its lot, but it is undoubtedly the most outspoken and pertinent. Its message flows straight out of the action, and as a piece of entertainment it is a tense, explosive melodrama...
...Howard, 73, California Buick distributor and race horse owner-in Hillsborough, Calif. In 1935 Howard paid $7,500 for a homely, wobbly-kneed three-year-old bay named Seabiscuit; at the ripe old age of seven, Seabiscuit came out of retirement to win the "Hundred Grand Santa Anita Handicap...
...When you consider the language handicap and the economic position of these people when they arrived," said City Commissioner of Welfare Raymond M. Hilliard, "it is remarkable that the relief figure isn't higher than...