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...Southeast is increasingly accessible. By rail, Jacksonville is only 25 hours from New York, 35 from Chicago, 36 from St. Louis. Miami is about eight hours further. A half-day nearer the North are Pinehurst, Camden, Asheville, Aiken, Augusta, where the Southeast begins. One can take ship from Boston to Charleston or from New York to Miami or Savannah. ¶ Southbound golfers often head for the places where their favorite professionals hold forth. At Pinehurst are Donald and Alec Ross; at Augusta, Dave and Alec Ogilvie; at Belleair, Alex Smith. Gene Sarazen is at New Port Ritchey, Fla. At Miami...
...Nearer drew the ship to land. But also Death drew nearer. The race was ended when the Ile de France was still a day distant from Manhattan. As the liner docked, young Mrs. Wells said that she would take the malaria wasted body of her husband home to Minneapolis for burial...
...teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who arranged for Chile and Peru to resume diplomatic relations but the 49-year-old Tacna-Arica Question is absolutely no nearer settlement than before...
...fresh recurrence of wild gun play on the part of officers of the peace comes nearer home with the assault on a Harvard student by a policeman of three weeks standing. The complications of violated traffic signals and the search for a stolen car happily caused no more damage than the puncturing of a hat. But a change of a few degrees in the course of the bullet would have meant death...
...more mordant, Lampy seizes the opportunity to insinuate that these demi-gods who battle amid the rumblings of reform and the crash of platforms are but mortals after all. While the stentorian tones of our fire-eating friends from below the Mason and Dixon Line-and even from nearer home than that-clamor for just retribution to be exacted by a woefully wronged people, Lampy has the temerity to suggest that, "Another thing that Al could do that Moses Couldn't was look good in a brown derby." Though the efficiency experts of the G. O. P. shake wise...