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...Having given up their annual swing around the grapefruit circuit last winter, top-flight golfers got together in the North and South Open at Pinehurst, N.C. New eligibility rule: players must be over 38 or in uniform. With such stars as Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson missing, Veteran Bobby Cruickshank, 48 and a grandfather, bagged the tournament with a mediocre 292, just 21 strokes above Hogan's winning score last year...
Like most small-town rich boys, young Elmer grew up a little apart. His mother and aunt, former schoolteachers, started his education long before he went to school; in a town where most boys preferred swimming off the sand bars, skating on Hogan's Creek or coasting at Dutch Hollow, he was soon known as an intellectual. Oldtimers remember him as a plump youngster (from a heavy appetite for beefsteak and cake), with a large, serious head thrust inquiringly forward, a stiff-legged, determined walk, a penchant for burying his nose in a book. In baseball games...
...number of these enemies was perhaps baffling to those investigating Tresca's murder. Said New York's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan: "It seems at some time or other, in politics and personalities, that Tresca was 'agin everything.' " Police had one important witness, several thin leads. A pistol had been found near the murder scene, and an abandoned car. An ex-convict had been spotted entering the same car just before the murder; he was in custody and being questioned. More than 100 detectives were on the case, for among the slain man's friends...
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis was described in last month's War Medicine by Drs. Michael J. Hogan and Joseph W. Crawford of San Francisco. Main characteristics: Small glands of the cheek and neck usually swell, and eyelid swelling may become extreme. When the swelling goes down after about three weeks, white spots may remain in the cornea, especially around the edges of the pupil. These vision disturbers take from one to three months to be absorbed. The disease is thought to be transmissible only by direct contact...
...cure is yet to be found-treatments in use are eyewashes and applications to reduce swelling. Drs. Hogan and Crawford published their article so that physicians, especially in areas like Detroit, which the disease has not yet reached, can learn to recognize it, isolate patients early to prevent further spreading...