Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hole in the Boat. Cocking an older eye at the frail Laski's furious round of reading, writing, lecturing, politicking and literary partygoing. Holmes continually warned his half-century junior against "working your machine too hard." Pithier than Laski and more profound, he matched him dictum for dictum, except that the Holmes dicta more often suggested the open mind than the clenched fist. Some of Holmes's views...
...role of reason: "As I grow older I realize how limited a part reason has in the conduct of men. They believe what they want to-and although liable to shipwreck, they very generally get off with a hole in the bottom of their boat and stick an old coat into that...
...carded a 75 on her final round to make her 72-hole score four strokes under the record set by Babe Zaharias of Tampa, Fla., in winning the 1950 tourney...
Short Change. In Milwaukee, Tomie Looney dropped a $5 bill in a sewer, got help from Sewer Department Employee John Krzewina, who fished around in the hole with a long-handled rake for half an hour, finally dredged up a muddy $1 bill...
Almost any of the 16 U.S. prisoners could be the ringer, and almost all of them are characterized in vignettes, deft without depth. A deeper probe is unnecessary, however, as the Americans are a typical Hollywood fox-hole cross-section, more like able than complicated not a Keefer in the crowd. Hence, playing the parts poses few problems, and the cast is even better than need-be. It is led by old hand George Tobias, who portrays the rollicking bulk called Stosh, and Douglas Watson, who does well by surly Sefton. Comedy bits are added by Jerry Jarrett and others...