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...last week, playing in a friendly foursome, Golfer Small was again reminded of her uncanny accuracy. On a 114-yd. hole, her tee shot arched to the green and dribbled plunk into the cup for her eighth hole in one. Minutes later, on a 190-yd. hole, she sank No. 9. Said Mrs. Small, hopefully: "This doubleheader may have put the cork in the bottle...
...drag 'em off to jail, ruin their means of livelihood) that they are able to dictate which movies a free people will or will not see? ... Los Angeles is my home. I hope to return there when this mess is over, and when I again plunk down my buck for a loge in Grauman's Chinese Theater, I want to know I am seeing a movie the manager, not the Legion's goon squad, las selected...
...World War II's end, Wolfson was able to plunk down $1,000,000 to buy the war-surplus Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Within two years, he and his brothers liquidated it for a profit of $4,000,000. They also liquidated the supply company for another $2,500,000 profit. With wealthy business friends, they organized a "Florida syndicate" to buy control of Merritt-Chapman & Scott. Wolfson, who grew up with Politician Fuller Warren, contributed $100,000 to Warren's successful campaign for governor, and later, on a low competitive bid, won a contract to build...
...turned out, Harbert was caught on a hook of his own making. With the match all even after the 35th, Harbert's hooked drive on the 438-yard 36th nestled plunk behind a left-fairway fir tree, stymied from the green. Harbert could only pitch out into the fairway. Turnesa drove straight and true, pitched dead to the green, holed out in two putts and won the match with a par, one up. Said Turnesa, speaking for the rest of the family: "We've been trying to get our name on that trophy for over 30 years...
...small deflated dollar is going to help old retired mailmen who need it much more than you do, I'm sure." If one stands still and says nothing, the mailman will also stand and wait. If one says he has no dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back for the dollar later. Some, perhaps, with iron wills and few correspondents are able to think of the postal solicitors as annual nuisances, whom they can dismiss with a series of flat, firm "no's." Many more...