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When a St. Louis theatre manager fortnight ago revived the cinema's most eloquent preachment against war, All Quiet on the Western Front, that nine-year-old picture played to packed houses. Last week Universal, producers of All Quiet and of Author Erich Maria Remarque's equally tragic sequel, The Road Back, announced plans to reissue both films. To All Quiet will be added a new commentary, fore & aft, and some of the 3,000 feet snipped from the film after it left the hands of Director Lewis Milestone. Universal will also restore to The Road Back controversial...
Sure enough, the finalists were Billows and Ward. For his 92 holes of match play that far, Billows was nine under par. Ward had-played 103 holes, was 12 under. In the semifinal, Ward had shot three birdies and an eagle right in a row. Against this, Chicago's Art Doering got three pars and a birdie, could not win a hole...
...final, Ward took the first nine one up, was four up at the end of the first 18. Billows had him even only once, on the eighth. In the afternoon round, Ward blazed through the first nine to become seven up. On the 13th, with five holes to play, he was still seven up and national champion. Ward hits super-lengthy drives, on-in-two brassies, crisp irons, but the answer to last week's feat lay in his putter. In the 66 holes he had to play in the last two rounds, he one-putted 29 greens, three...
Died. John Wesley Van Dyke, 89, self-made oil tycoon, strong-handed board chairman of Atlantic Refining Co., president of nine oil companies; after long illness; in Philadelphia...
Boast of Marion is that not a cent of new capital has been put into the business since the founders scraped together $20,000 and began operations 55 years ago. Nothing to boast of, however, are the company's net income deficits for seven of the last nine years' operations. Marion's big income comes from the sale of mining shovels and since Depression I the industries that use them have been in the dumps...