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...East, but in the South and West, the season opened with a bang. The fans flocked to watch the games and incidentally to see the changes, if any, brought about by the new rules. The traditional powers still looked rugged, but there were plenty of rough spots and a rash of upsets as teams switched over from two platoons to one. Among the biggest...
...boodling that went on during Alemán's six years broke all records in a land accustomed to high, wide & handsome ways in government. Mexico's press had been too close to the game to chronicle much of it, and every journalist knew about one rash editor who had been hurled, along with his typewriter, from his fourth-floor office window for daring to question the sudden wealth of a leading Alemán crony...
London papers last week broke out with a rash of black headlines forecasting changes in the Churchill government. The News Chronicle: CABINET RESHUFFLE ON THE WAY. The Daily Mail: CABINET CHANGES COMING SOON. The factual foundation for the stories was that Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, apparently recovered from the slight stroke he suffered in June, last week had moved back into his official residence, Chequers, and was seeing a lot of prominent Tories for luncheons, and whisky & sodas...
Sallying forth from Tam O'Shanter's modernistic, Muzak-wired clubhouse (228 employees, a rash of bars, a swimming pool), Promoter May made occasional rounds of the course with a happy, proprietary air. Far too lavish to make a profit, the tournament's whopping deficit is being underwritten by May's firm of efficiency experts (680 staffers, $8,000,000 yearly sales), which will efficiently charge it off to promotion and publicity. Onetime Bible Salesman May got into golf because so many of his business prospects were found on tees. His fortunes have not always been...
...Marwaris and the British have the best businesses; the quick Madrasis get the best jobs; the workers for the jute mills come mostly from Bihar. Moreover, there is seldom enough money for the dowry, and the daughters stay long at home. All this discontent spreads like a heat rash and inflames at the slightest provocation...