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...weeks sporting England has been worried over the drought that frizzled the British Isles this spring. It threatened to spoil the ancient St. Andrews golf course for Britain's No. 1 international sporting event of the year (see below). More distressing, it threatened to parch the turf at ancient Epsom Downs for the nation's No. 1 fiesta, the Derby. With loving care the grass of the irregular horseshoe course was watered every day for ten dry weeks. Then, on the eve of the race, a torrent fell...
...Parliament to insure thirsty Scots of a "wee deoch an' doris" on the grounds. Strait-laced Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper on the glass screens in front of the statues...
Industriously in London last week solid, bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and lean, hawk-nosed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did their potent best to spoil the grandiose State visit which pudgy, mystic Adolf Hitler was to make to Italy this week, escorted by a retinue of 170 German officials, plus 70 German editors, plus 84 German photographers. The privileged photographers were fitted out last week for the first time in blue-grey uniforms with a visored cap and flowing cape. The privileged German editors each received two blue-black uniforms and six pairs of gloves, were warned...
...other officials, all of whom contributed to its enactment. No more will the service, which eighty-four tutors, instructors, and proctors were supposed to render, be gratuitous; no longer can charges of incompetence be based on lack of time. Now the head and tail of a worm that would spoil any theoretical apple have been destroyed. By no means, however, is the problem completely solved. Those who think it possible at one crack are absurd, and those who feel that nothing more can be done are equally unwise...
...leaders, and wisecracking business managers. Unfortunately for Miss Henie, she has again been paired with Don Ameche, who should be pulling his darling little black mustache and muttering "foiled again"; and this time Ethel Merman and her fire-alarm voice have been thrown in to boot. But nothing can spoil Sonja Henie; her skating alone saves the day and makes the picture well worth going...