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...group of 65 newspapermen, led by the late, famed Publisher Victor Fremont Lawson of the Chicago Daily News and his onetime partner, Melville Elijah Stone, met in Chicago and organized the Associated Press of Illinois. It was the first big non-commercial news agency (incorporated in New York in 1900 under a law providing for the organization of "fish & game" clubs) to share news dispatches among its member papers...
...boat, rowed down the harbor to meet incoming ships, got his news fresh from the passengers before they landed. Six New York City dailies later followed suit, outfitted a harbor boat, started a news pool. They called it The Associated Press, and it was the predecessor of Victor Lawson's agency...
...boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs...
...called "Porky," had teed off (with two other players in his threesome) a half hour before the time assigned for his last round. That was contrary to the rules of the U.S.G.A. Even though Ed Oliver's total score (for the four rounds) was 287-a tie with Lawson Little and Gene Sarazen for first place-officals firmly maintained that a rule is a rule, barred Oliver from the playoff...
When Oliver won the rich St. Paul Open, a few weeks later, with a score two strokes better than that of Lawson Little (who had finally won the U. S champion ship), golf fans were convinced that Porky was the "uncrowned champ." As a consolation, Champion Little volunteered to play a few exhibition matches with Oliver. Then, when Little had to return to his job in the White Mountains, Golf, an up-& -coming young magazine, got Runner-up Sarazen to go on an exhibition tour with Oliver. Originally scheduled for 30 days, the tour proved so popular it was last...