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...Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat at the ball. It fell short. She took another, got closer. The third ball plopped on the green, rolled 5 ft. 6 in. from the cup. Asked her handicap. Golfer Lawrence explained: "My handicap is the ball...
James Smith Ferebee, 31-year-old La Salle Street broker, has a golf handicap of 11 at his club, Chicago's de luxe Olympia Fields. Fat Fred Tuerk, his crony, averages "around 176" for 18 holes...
...people take their governance as seriously as some do their horseracing, next Saturday's political handicap in Kentucky ranks in national news-interest with the Derby at Churchill Downs. Of all 32 Senatorial primaries this year, Kentucky's Democratic race is the most significant and most colorful-significant because, in the person of his Majority Leader of the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt himself is in effect running to avert a rebuff to his New Deal; colorful because Senator Barkley's challenger is a brassy colt who, on sheer political form, could win in a walk if this were...
...people wearing Barkley buttons he walks up and, ripping off the button says: "You can't do that to me! I'm the best Governor you ever had!" That still left Happy Chandler under a Roosevelt handicap. While he told opponents, "You can't do that to me!" Barkley was telling his opponents: You can't do that to Franklin Roosevelt...
...fairness to the reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys. The lads are largely overnourished, overclad and burdened with the handicap of both town and country houses...