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...final was the fact that only two U. S. players in the last 30 years-Sweetser in 1926, Jones in 1930-have won the British Amateur. What the 12,000 saw was something much rarer, one of those mystifying rounds which, built of luck, confidence and skill in exactly the right proportions, can make the game of golf appear to be a form of magic. Before the match Little said to a reporter: 'T feel like I might shoot some pretty good golf today." The match ended, for all practical purposes, on the first green where Wallace three-putted...
Anthrax is a disease of sheep and cattle which humans who work with hides or wool may get through skin abrasions. It produces pustular swellings which may become gangrenous. A rarer form of the disease is pulmonary, from inhaling dried spores in dusty workrooms. Three months ago a young Sackville mill employe died of anthrax. Since then four other Sackvillians have been stricken. All recovered...
...anti-inflationists last week (see p. 12), the President answered in a radio address occasioned by Maryland's tercentenary. Tolerantly he observed: "It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us. but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with...
...AMERICAN HERO-F. W. Bronson- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). There are two kinds of irony, intellectual and visceral. Irony from the stomach is the rarer, and when it is applied by a young writer to his own time there are few literary veins more satisfying. Author Bronson's "hero" is apparently an amalgam of the potentialities of different young men he knew at Yale, melted down into a character as thoroughly "American" as Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat. Jonathan ("Johnny," "O. K.") Green is a redheaded, good-natured ruffian from a small town in Pennsylvania. His ability to smash chins...
Each national park is a wild life sanctuary in which every form of wild life native to the park receives total protection. Occasionally some species benefits from the changes wrought by human developments and becomes so numerous as to threaten the existence of some rarer, less adaptable, species. At such times it may become necessary to adopt control measures to reduce the predatory species, but such control measures are only temporary and local in their nature...