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...hockey captain, shoots a consistent 74 to 78 over the hilly, narrow Dedham course, but Richart, who calls him a "top-flight competitor," says he is better in match than in medal play. Main feature of his game is a deadly accuracy from 50 yards on in to the pin. Top man on the ladder for two years, he is working now to groove his long game to a point equalling his finesse with the shorter clubs...
...Mobile to take command of a new Flying Enterprise, Captain Kurt Carlsen, besieged by reporters, asked them: "Why . . . pay any attention to me? I'm just another plain jerk. Maybe a bigger jerk than anybody else, when you get down to brass tacks." Asked about a pin in his lapel, he explained: "I'm an honorary member of the Girl Scouts of America ... I understand now the Boy Scouts are going to give my wife...
...indication of what was going to happen came when York County Chairman Harold D. Carroll, who had declared himself neutral and had been claimed by Taft men, arrived. He tacked a handsome colored portrait of Ike on his hotel-room door and stuck an Ike pin in his lapel. As the conventions were about to begin, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase...
...movement of the fins. Like a good dinner hostess, she is able to dart into controversial subjects (birth control, Senator Joe McCarthy, racial segregation) and out again, getting her strong opinions across in a deceptively mild way. She has a gift for the unquotable sentence: those who attempt to pin her down on the evidence of her words find her vagueness irritatingly artful. It is-but the manner has by now become second nature to her. She knows what she wants to say, and when to punctuate it with a smile, an irrelevance or an ambiguity...
Another trick of jewelery magic that will intrigue Harvard men is the shoulder pin worn with a strapless sunback dress or formal. This accessory, available in numerous shapes, sizes, and combinations, has no visible means of support, but, confidentially, the gadgets come equipped with a supply of special invisible glue...