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Died. Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 69, only golf champion ever to take the sport's Grand Slam by winning the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open in one year; in Atlanta. The Jones family home was located on the grounds of a suburban Atlanta golf club, and young Bobby was weaned on putters and par. Playing as an amateur-he was a practicing attorney-Jones ruled the fairways during golf's "Golden Age." Between 1923 and 1930 he was thirteen times a winner in major tournaments. Though his Grand Slam in 1930 marked...
...year-old Ruby Keeler's artful tap dancing in No, No, Nanette (which opened on Broadway in January and is still playing to packed houses) that provided the real reveille for taps. Almost from the moment that Ruby clacked back into the limelight, percussive, slam-bang tap, which had languished for nearly 40 years, was popular again...
...First, it gives Shelter an intellectual gloss: Mick or Keith's contemplation suggests the burden of self-consciousness, a filmed discourse on the relation of self to representation, etc., etc. Naturally this is all glitter; what such a schema really does here is allow the filmmakers to cut another slam-bang rock 'n' roll number in every four or five minutes without risking a stylistic break. That way the sequences of Melvin Belli negotiating for the Stones, virtually the only explanation tendered in the entire film concerning who is responsible for what, are not permitted to drag on at "unnecessary...
...real slam-banger," Ullrich said. "The most exciting race I've ever seen." "We rowed an extremely good race," Parker added. "I'd like to chalk the whole thing off," Nash concluded. "If you find out what happened to my crew, let me know...
...bring in a lot of riffraff from Kansas City." "It's a bodacious street," allows Mayor V.M. ("Doc") Dostal. After their day's work in K.C., the people of Leawood obviously want nothing more than to come home to their handsome houses in their manicured suburb and slam the door. They might as well put up a sign reading PRIVATE-KEEP...