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...years ago shuffleboard was taken ashore, made a major sport at St. Petersburg, Fla. Most of St. Pete's winter visitors are middleaged, middle-class U. S. citizens, too churchgoing for horse racing, too homespun for golf. Shuffleboard suited them to a P and Q. From early morning till late at night, they shoved little discs over Mirror Lake Park's 103 shuffleboard courts. Every visitor tried the game at least once. Gradually they abandoned horseshoe pitching, the sport that first brought fame to St. Pete...
Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post: "Perfection seemed to be written on the backs of the Harvard players, piercing the late afternoon murk like neon sign. The more homespun Elis never had a chance against the smooth, versatile Harlowmen...
...homespun exhorter, Preacher Anthony told his hearers at Old Salem to rear their children in ways of work ("If I had my way, I'd not raise a boy in Georgia who had not looked at the south end of a mule going north"), urged honesty as the best policy ("When you talk to God, tell Him the truth or keep your mouth shut"), livened his homilies with anecdote ("Up in Johnson County, they named a girl Blasphemy and called her 'Phemy' for short"). One of his prayers that sent "Amens" echoing round the tabernacle...
This setup will give modest, canny, homespun Ike Tigrett a chance to step up the $427,388 net profit his road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other...
Cynicism was not smart last week in the U. S. Homespun old words like "democracy" and"liberty" had become respectable again -and the common property of plain citizens. Out of the mouths of non-political citizens the times ordained political truth...