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...case of the "Allied change of mind." To get weary is therefore fatal for the post listener as I experienced when CBS and UP picked up Nazi Admiral Luetzow's statement about the scuttling of the Nazi destroyers at Narvik. As a rule the admiral talks so humdrum that he deserves only one quarter of an ear but that time everybody but me thought he had big news...
...first day, only four golfers broke 70. They were Jimmy Demaret, Byron Nelson and two other Texans, Oldtimer Harry Cooper and Newcomer Lloyd Mangrum, both of Dallas. The Augusta Masters has always produced at least one spectacular round. That day last week those Texans made all previous feats look humdrum. Playing with characteristic nonchalance, chatty Jimmy Demaret-in his first Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Few minutes later, along came unheralded Lloyd Mangrum to sink...
Graham Peck is the 25-year-old son of a Derby, Conn, wire hairpin manufacturer. Ten years ago he was saved from a humdrum life as a hairpin king when he won first prize ($100) in the Procter & Gamble International Soap-Carving Contest with a horse whose anatomy was so mythical that he put a horn on its forehead and called it a unicorn. From then on-through Andover and Yale-he recklessly mixed oils, drinks, metaphors. After graduating from college he set out around the world with $2,000 and a set of paints...
...TIME (Dec. 4-Education "School-marm") I was surprised to learn that a one-room schoolmarm would pay boys 15? a week for chores. From my experience in a one-room school I found that the pupils thought it a great privilege to get away from that inimitable humdrum of a one-room school to gather wood and fetch water. To the teacher it was a relief to be rid for awhile of the annoyances of the slothful, ne'er-do-well pupils...
After a late and humdrum start, the new season at last unrolled its red carpet and put on a white tie last week. On three successive nights celebrities and sophisticates flocked to welcome their favorite comedy-writing team, their favorite musicomedy-writing team, one of their two favorite actresses...