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...skills, the confidence and iron nerve of the big-money player before 30, and even then new challengers have been rare; a virtually unchanging set of veterans has been dividing big U.S. purses since World War II. But last week many a winter tournament spectator and most of the pros themselves were betting that a 27-year-old Texan named Jack Burke would crash the charmed circle for good...
Lynd's super-professionals are powerful men, who "by patient lobbying over many years . . . have so influenced state and local laws, that their training courses in teaching theory and method are virtually essential to the eligibility of any candidate for a job in your schools." But the super-pros do not stop there. To gain promotions, a teacher must keep coming back summer after summer to take mor courses...
...with 57 seconds to play, a Montreal forward slipped through the Toronto defenses and fired a goal to tie the score. If the Maple Leafs were ruffled by the turn of events-the game ended 3-3-they hid their chagrin behind the masks of dyed-in-the-wool pros.. So did their boss, Constantine Falkland Karrys Smythe...
...even the most eloquent minister may find that during his choicest arguments Attlee has been deeply absorbed in some pencil design on the paper before him. It is maddening, but there is no penetrating this kind of defense. Attlee in his cool ivory tower quietly sorts out the pros & cons and comes to a decision in his own time...
...makes enough on his tour, Sammy hopes to give up his job as a Manhattan accountant and become one of the first full-time U.S. chess pros. And he might decide to enter the U.S. biennial championship tournament this year, might even go to Russia, to challenge World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik...