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This week all the world could see to what a well-chewed pulp golf's famed grapefruit circuit has been reduced. Instead of some two dozen juicy tournaments with $155,000 in prize money, the tour that has helped to develop U.S. pros into the world's greatest golfers will include this year only two: the $5,000 Miami Open and the $5,000 Pinehurst North & South...
...graders began to take up the offensive. "What get us peeved," they complained, "is the continual use of such foul expressions as 'denote, delimit, maximizing, deem, feel,' and above all the inevitable 'pros outweigh the cons, therefore such should be done.' Sometimes the boys get confused, and talk about Silton when they mean Babcock, or keep 'ringing up sales on the cashier,' for ten pages...
...root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion. There are many anesthetics, each with its pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications (e.g., occasional paralyses, persistent headaches and other late effects) than anesthetic gases. Many patients prefer the new rectal anesthetics because they leave none of the aftereffects which ether usually produces. Some doctors contend that nearly all the unpleasant effects of ether (vomiting, nausea, etc.) can be avoided if the anesthetist...
...Gandhi, long the darling of leftists and liberals, was either pro-Japanese or a plain traitor. When Sir Stafford Cripps set out five months ago to offer India a new deal, possibly self-government, but at least postwar dominion status, the public was aroused to the tremendous issues involved. Pros & cons were hotly discussed, with the pros in the majority. Last week the British were in no such liberal mood...
...years, bookmakers have been quoting odds on tournament-playing golf pros as if they were race horses. Last week Chicago's Tam O' Shanter Country Club went the bookies one better: for its $15,000 Open, it asked the pros to wear numbers on their backs...