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Exactly at 11:35 Pm the white-robed royal obstetrician produced a fine, pink 7 Ib. Prince. Not a Crown Prince, for Their Majesties already had a three-year-old-son, slim little Baudoin who embarrassed his parents while the King was being sworn in by slipping off his big arm chair and climbing into Queen Astrid's lap (TIME, March...
...until Sarazen had posted his score did the crowd at the 18th green begin to wonder what had become of Dutra. He and Lawson Little were the last pair in the field. Playing with almost no gallery, taking a pill which his caddy offered him every hour, Dutra, 15 Ib. lighter than when the tournament began, was on the 15th tee, waiting for officials to silence a yapping fox terrier so that he could drive. He had had a 71 on his morning round. Now, to win the tournament, all he needed was to play the last four holes...
...from an Anglo-Saxon monopoly to a polyglot profession. Ex-Champion Sarazen's extraction is Italian, ex-Champion Burke's is Lithuanian (Bur-kowski). Champion Dutra's forbears were, with the Espinosas. among California's early Spanish settlers. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 230 Ib., Dutra is one of the game's hugest players. Abroad last year with the Ryder Cup team he was caricatured as King Kong...
...fetched a potato scales and weighed the lot in the clothesbasket: 13 Ib. 6 oz. The Dionne roosters were crowing for dawn while Dr. Dafoe washed up, eased his suspenders, donned his coat and drove back to his wifeless, book-filled home. He needed a little sleep, for later that day he expected another confinement...
...difference between the limit for welterweights (147 Ib.) and the limit for lightweights (135 Ib.) is not large but it is important. Lightweight champions had fought for the welterweight championship three times in the history of U. S. pugilism, when in New York last week a crowd of 65,000 paid $225,000 to see a fourth meeting of the same sort. In Madison...