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...story: an account of the British Empire Games in Vancouver, B.C. (see SPORT). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S regular departments include "Pat on the Back" ("Praise for those not already smothered with it"), "You Should Know" ("If you are going to buy a puppy"), "Yesterday" ("When a pretty filly, Goldsmith Maid, was the belle of the sporting world"), "Under 21" ("Some wonderful things can be done with a boomerang"). Among the new magazine's regular contributors: Tennis Player Bill Talbert, Sport Writer Red Smith, Football Grandee Herman Hickman, Nature Humorist John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Novelist and Boxing Impresario Budd...
...Gold is for the mistress-silver for the maid...
...Lady-Killer. Little Leo has no idea what Marian thinks about marrying Lord Trimingham. He only knows that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy. To fetch and carry for Maid Marian is heaven to Leo-especially when she asks him to carry a secret letter from her to Ted Burgess and rewards him with "an enchanting smile...
...writer of a weekly column for the Trib and Washington's Post and Times-Herald, had what seemed like a stroke of bad luck. Laid up with bronchitis, she could not get around to scout up subjects for her column, passed the time talking to her upstairs maid, who has worked in the household for more than 30 years. The result was a lively column about Prime Minister Churchill, when he was the house guest of Anglophobe Colonel McCormick 25 years...
Churchill's entourage, the maid recalled, consisted of a male secretary and a valet-bodyguard. Since Churchill had a bad cold, the valet instructed the maid to get two dozen handkerchiefs, each a yard square and imported from the British Isles. Wrote the colonel's lady: "Churchill was really a demigod to this fellow . . . This cocky detective said that Mr. Churchill had the mind of the century and there was nothing that he did not know or could not understand...