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After lunch, Jacqueline Gordon was still playing hard. But the Babe had changed to her old blue corduroy slacks, and she had her game under control. She cinched the championship on the 32nd green. As she went into a victory jig, a bystander asked her the inevitable question about the secret of her success and got a far-from-inevitable answer. Cracked the Babe: "I just loosen my girdle and let the ball have...
...missing the last commuter train to suburban White Plains, one Elmer Patrick Gargan turned to relatives for help. To by-pass telephone-struck domestic exchanges, he called his aunt in Eire over the less-snarled overseas circuit, asked her to relay a message home. The call went through in jig time: Manhattan to Eire to White Plains. Cost: $12 for three minutes...
...date, the alert neophyte can learn a little about his environment--if he is skilled at assembling jig-saw puzzles. If he has time for the more thoughtful courses in history, literature, and the fine arts, he will not clude Sam Adams, nor West nor Bullfinch, nor the Mathers, nor Holmes, Thoreau and Emerson. If he leans toward economics, he will learn something about how New England makes its living. He may even get some visual education, as from the field trips which Professor Black promotes to the farms and forests of the region...
Beginning where Atabrine and quinine leave off, SN 13,276 costs no more, stops chills & fever in jig time, will not discolor the skin or nauseate...
From This Day Forward develops unusual warmth, humaneness and honesty. This is sometimes seriously impaired by patronizing and oversentimental sympathy for simple folk. At a working-class dance, for instance, the couples jig almost as fantastically as high-lifers at a society ball in a Chaplin comedy. The falseness is also indicated in lines like Miss Fontaine's dreamy: "All brides are beautiful -because they're young and full of hope and-they feel sorta shining inside...