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Gotta keep your back straight ... pure Allais, of course, and it goes like this and always leaves the demonstrator on the rug ... then, after all, that's all wrong, and something called Arlberg (not in Life magazine, so who knows?) is really ... can't have your can sticking out ... really an almost metaphysical thing, you know: counter-rotation is the essence...
...operations in Near Eastern oil (TIME, Nov. 15) which have made him one of the world's richest men. Impassive and aloof as the statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...
...first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house. While sympathizing with Hogan on the hazards of homeowning, he began to get the facts for his story...
...heebie-jeebies over it. The new Truman budget (see above) cut the China aid program to ribbons. Last week one man did speak out firmly, and he spoke out firmly even if many Americans regarded the whole subject of China as something to be swept beneath the rug and ignored...
...mouths to feed: he had married attractive Valerie Fox, a home-town girl he had known since they went to kid parties together. They skimped on food and entertainment. Ben haunted the practice tee, even brought his putter back to the hotel to practice on the rug. By 1940, he was beginning to look like a golfer. He came in second in six consecutive tournaments, finally won Pinehurst's North & South Open. That year he finished as golf's top money-winner (with $10,656), repeated in 1941 (with $18,358) and again in 1942 (with...