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Working girls at Prestwick, Scotland, thronged around his plane as if he were a combination of Tyrone Power and Laurence Olivier. Queen Mary, a woman with no nonsense about her, was openly captivated. Cried a London barmaid: "Nobody can say anything but the best about Ike." Taxi drivers, fishmongers, newspapermen echoed her words. In Luxembourg, street crowds chanted "Ike! Ike! Ike!" in the most undignified and friendly manner possible. U.S. occupation troops in Austria. Italy and Germany seemed to forget that they were fed up with garrison duty...
Canada was profoundly uninterested in this arrangement. Its Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines plans to start flying the North Atlantic (Montreal to Prestwick, Scotland) on Sept. 1. By getting a fast start on this rich route, it expects to corral enough traffic so that it can meet all comers, will not have to split with any. In the face of Canada's determination, Lord Swinton reluctantly agreed to competition between B.O.A.C. and Canada on the North Atlantic. But he won his point on the remainder of the Empire routes, such as Britain to India, South Africa...
...seriously when his father returned to the U. S. In 1927, he took to entering major tournaments and in 1929, at 18, accomplished his first noteworthy feat by beating Johnny Goodman who had just beaten Bobby Jones, in the U.S. Amateur. Last year he won the British Amateur at Prestwick, after the most one-sided final in the tournament's history when, against a frightened Troon carpenter named Wallace, he played 23 holes without losing one. When three months later he won the U.S. Amateur as well, it made Little easily the outstanding amateur golfer in the world. Built...
...chance to do the same thing. Huge, round-faced William Lawson Little learned his golf on a course laid out on the site of a graveyard near Tientsin where his Army-Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been driving the ball 250 to 260 yd. Among other able opponents, he had beaten young Willie Turnesa, who had eliminated the defending champion, George Terry Dunlap...
...summaries: M. I. T. 1935 ELIOT Brosnahan, l.e. r.e., Clapp, Frailey, Bruce Lovering, l.t. r.t., Wood, E., Wood, C. Fletcher, l.g. r.g., Ward Giviada, c. c., Koch Hunt, r.g. l.g., Bloomberg Kennedy, r.t. l.t., Bersey Reid, r.e. l.e., Nickerson Sminsky, q.b. q.b., Maycock Peterson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Keller Prestwick, r.h.b. l.h.b., Mitchell Cooper, f.b. f.b., Ferry RAMBLERS LEVERETT Fox, Bates, l.e. r.e., Howes, Preston Morgan, l.t. r.t., Levin, Oppenheim Hunter, Pemberton, l.g. r.g., Duffield Greenberg, c. c., Beardsley Sillan, Quigley, r.g. l.g., Cary, Woodbury Raoul, Buch, r.t. l.t., Lowenberg Poett, White, r.e. l.e., Bariot, Potter McKey, Gobelein, q.b. q.b., Adams Cowen...