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...spring training session in Pinehurst, N.C., one of the largest turnouts in recent years competed for the seven team berths, and engendered some of the keenest competition ever. Whereas last year the qualifying score for three rounds was 86, the score was 81 for five rounds this year, and on the final round there were no less than five players in contention for the seventh position...
...Simenon is best known as the creator of pipe-smoking Inspector Maigret, the kindly, plodding and vaguely troubled French detective. But the keenest Simenon fans have long since stopped thinking of him as a mere mystery writer or even as a literary psychologist. To them he is a real novelist with a special view of life that is instantly conjured up in their minds by the simple mention of his name...
Competition is probably keenest for the starting goalie position. There is not much difference between Arnold Sengal and Don McNeil. Sengal started the first two games, but was unable to play against Dartmouth, and McNeil took over. Both have turned in creditable performances...
Nevertheless, many of the complaints about competition from Marshall Plan-aided industries are hardly justified. Some of the keenest competition has come from industries that got little or no Marshall Plan money, such as British bicycles, Italian sewing machines and Swiss watches. And indi vidual companies were not handed new plants and tools, but had to pay for them just like any U.S. manufacturer. Marshall aid furnished dollars to for eign governments, and the foreign companies then paid for the equipment in their own currencies...
...answer to an important politic puzzle of the of the present Administration can be found in the office of the Attorney-General of the United States. It concerns the touchiest of domestic issue, internal Communism, and the keenest political mind in the Eisenhower cabinet, Herbert Brownell, Jr. The puzzle involves making sense out Brownell's perambulating policy on the Communist issue--from his charge that former President Truman knowingly promoted a Russian spy, to his more recent participation in the Administration's attempt to undermine the influence of senator McCarthy...