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...sheep leave a hoof print to spoil your lie? What if the greens are too slow or uneven to make perfect putting possible? What if, in the absence of rough, the man who slices has as good a chance as you? My answer is that you, Mr. Sniffer, are probably the man who slices and in your heart you'd be extremely happy to find that you didn't have to lose three strokes three feet off the fairway...
Because he spends so much time in personal investigation, Karl Doenitz' followers call him Chief Mussel Sniffer. One day two years before the war, dissatisfied with British Admiralty official reports on currents around the Portland naval base, he boarded U-37 and went to see for himself. The destroyer Wolfhound spotted the strange sub, dropped a couple of practice detonators, scared the German visitor to the surface. While Doenitz fumed in the torpedo room, the U-boat commander made proper apologies. Then the U-boat went home. Doenitz reportedly confided to a fellow officer that, on hearing the depth...
...father (Pulitzer Prize Biographer Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe), a shrewd editorial sense, a mercurial mind. For twelve years he applied it to foreign affairs for The Living Age; for the last five it has glided around the offices of Simon & Schuster. For years Editor Howe was the No. 1 sniffer-out of British influence and propaganda in the U. S. His England Expects Every American To Do His Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked the U. S. "war party" from J. P. Morgan...
...games which would draw greater attendance. But in spite of pressure, even from within, the Director of Athletics has wisely and consistently refused to acquiesce. Should Harvard release Yale from the September 15 agreement, it will simply mean that football practice at Cambridge will have to commence sooner, that sniffer schedules will eventually be arranged; it will mean a return to all the emphasis and ballyhoo from which Harvard has, with some success been trying to extricate its football...
...that lived on Leaves of Grass." In spite of all, Author Pitkin remains incorrigibly optimistic. With not unheard-of scientific naivete he hopes to save mankind by mechanization of many of man's functions. In his age of Super-Sense, "A hay fever sufferer will . . . have a pocket sniffer which will enable him to detect in the summer breeze the April...