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...hole medal round, five strokes too many to qualify him for the match play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score-140 (71-69), second lowest in Amateur history...
...guest of honor before the Canadian Club and the Empire Club of Canada. Wide he opened his mouth, and firmly he put his foot in it. Said he, referring to his fellow U. S. citizens : "To me, it is only too apparent that the life, the liberty, the livelihood and the very safety of this same neutral citizen may be dependent upon the outcome of the present war." The outcome Minister Cromwell hoped for, he made clear, was the victory of the Allies. Picturing himself as a sentry who "sees approaching a force which frankly and openly seeks to destroy...
Recently the language difficulty reached a crisis. Though the Navajos are famed silversmiths and rug makers, their livelihood depends largely on sheep raising. The Government found their lands 40% overgrazed, their soil rapidly becoming eroded, concluded that the Navajos must be persuaded to reduce their stocks. But how to tell them? The Navajos had no written language. The Government's experts had developed a scientific jargon which they called Navajo, but the Navajos couldn't understand it. In their own vernacular, the Navajos had no words for such paleface facts as "sheep units," "wholesale," "retail." Navajo translation...
...those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed to the British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded...
...nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give up a prosperous livelihood, and too many like Tommy Dorsey and Artic Shaw who are so busy looking for the big money they don't have time to relax in their music or their personal manner...