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...Amateur. Everyone had heard of him after the first day of match play because he put out the great Bobby Jones in the first round. Nowadays Goodman sells much more insurance, travels in better cars, wears better clothes. He was third-best amateur in the 1929 U. S. Open second-best in 1930, best in 1932 and again this year. In 1933 he won the Open against a held of crack professionals. In the U S Amateur he was runner-up in 1932 and a semifinalist in 1935 and 1936, but never won it. Last week he seemed overdue...
...Tarkington's Penrod stories when they were the same age as the protagonists will catch some of the backyard necromancy of their childhood in this latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood swarms these days, are Tarkington silhouets made three-dimensional...
...Second-best whopper came from Liar Roman Links of San Francisco: Taking advantage of an impenetrable San Francisco fog, Liar Links had ingeniously sprayed the fog with black ink, hacked it up, sold it for coal...
...night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an expression of a democracy's gratitude for the failure; or whether the British people are trying to make up for the disappointment by a second-best array of fireworks. Judging by the noise the latter seems the logical solution. One young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration over some disappointment in someone failing to blow something or other. He was just as serious as was the ignorance of Rhodes when...
...Broadway's 1936-37 musicomedy firmament was judged by most observers to be of the second magnitude. In terms of a college musical show, the libretto wrestles with the story of a nation-wide search for a girl with a waffle-iron burn on her fundament. She has been lost since 1918, approximately the year in which Messrs. Lindsay's & Grouse's puns, concerning souls and heels and counterfeiters who forge ahead, lost their bloom. Also second-best in the opinion of most listeners is the score Cole Porter has composed for his 12th musical show. Victim...