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World War II may make Il Duce's everlasting reputation as a statesman. Few statesmen have ever been caught in such a hole. If he stuck his head out in one direction, it would be chopped off by Britain and France-on paper at least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
...strove for the 171 places in last week's entry list at Chicago's North Shore Country Club. The National itself is one of the toughest grinds going-two qualifying rounds of medal play to cut the field to 64, four rounds of 18-hole match play to determine the semifinalists, then 36-hole semifinal and final matches. Bobby Jones, who won it five times, used to call the National Amateur a nightmare. One flubbed iron, one balky putt, and the ruling champion often finds himself among the spectators...
Last week, after the second 18-hole round, on the sidelines were the great Johnny Goodman, who has also won the National Open (1933), Willie Turnesa, 1938 Amateur champion, many other top-flights. Still in stride, however, among the 16 survivors, were: 1) Poughkeepsie's Ray Billows, golf's handsome, glamorous, 25-year-old Cinderella Man, who got a toehold on golf fame in 1935 by driving to swank Winged Foot on the Sound in a $7 jalopy to win the New York State title; and 2) 26-year-old, icy-veined Marvin ("Bud") Ward, of Spokane...
Sure enough, the finalists were Billows and Ward. For his 92 holes of match play that far, Billows was nine under par. Ward had-played 103 holes, was 12 under. In the semifinal, Ward had shot three birdies and an eagle right in a row. Against this, Chicago's Art Doering got three pars and a birdie, could not win a hole...
...prediction, aviation, a dozen other technologies. Atoms In Action is not only authoritative but readable, for Author Harrison has a fine flair for colorful analogy, e.g., "When one of the modern atom-smashing devices is put into operation the atomic debris comes flying out like dirt from a gopher hole in which a very industrious puppy is scratching...