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Whenever someone mentions money, Golfer Bobby Locke's ears sharpen to a point. Would Locke consider taking a $5,000 guarantee to play in Chicago's Tarn O' Shanter tourney? asked the man from Chicago. Would he! Locke put in a hurry-up telephone call to London, broke his date to play in the British Open. He called South Africa, said he wouldn't be home for a while...
...master decided that it was not "work" for men to stand in line to punch the time clock, walk to their benches, don overalls, grease their arms, sharpen tools. Even if they started work before the whistle blew, the master argued, it should not count, because sometimes they loafed afterward or quit early...
...function of office boys & girls everywhere. For us, they carry countless "takes" of editorial copy, distribute some 1,500 newspapers, hundreds of telegrams and messages every day; lug advertising plates to the printer, contracts to the lawyer, pick up photographs at the Customs House, turn on the air conditioning, sharpen pencils, turn off the air conditioning, ad infinitum. One office boy does nothing but track down lost people (somebody's office in TIME gets moved every...
Lecture. When the police took over, Roumeguere was suspect No. 1. He went on a hunger strike to sharpen his wits, parried all questions with ease. Then he lectured his interrogators on Existentialism. "How does it happen," the police commissioner bellowed, "that you know such crazy people?" Said Roumeguere: "I am a psychiatrist. It is my business to know crazy people. But how about the people you associate with? Aren't most of them criminals?" In a few days, Roumeguere was turned loose...
...answer, Inco denied that it was a monopoly. It said that nickel prices were so low that the U.S. Government had to subsidize Cuban mines during the war to enable them to compete with Inco. This seemed to sharpen Justice's point that Inco owns all economically workable nickel deposits in the Western Hemisphere. Submarginal mines such as Cuba's can compete only with subsidies...