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Last week this select sorority initiated a new member, freckled-faced, redheaded Patty Berg, tomboy darling of U. S. golf galleries. Still at college (Minnesota junior), still naive enough to shake hands with all comers, to blush when interviewed and squeak "Gee Whillikers" when excited, 22-year-old Patty decided last week that she had had her fill of big silver cups, joined the Wilson boosters-at a salary of $5,000 a year, plus commission on "Patty Berg" clubs...
...happen again, the U. S. turned its back on $155,000,000 of Government investment in powder mills, sold out what it had built, and pocketed less than $15,000.000 in salvage. Result: when World War II came along, 21 years later, it had no more than a pip-squeak powder capacity, could not today come close to meeting its own wartime demand for powder for guns, large or small...
...Lowell gets the breaks in the softball league and 35 points by finishing in a two-way tie for fourth, in addition to a Kirkland hardball defeat, it can squeak through to a 1548 to 1571 1/2 point win over the Deacons by beating Adams in hardball. Kirkland is a cinch third in the softball, good for 50 points, and seems to be a heavy favorite to win the Straus Trophy for the second successive year
...well as Geppetto's, the wood-carver. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood has ever drawn. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his hinges, here is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto...
...life where there was none before is his own specialty. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his bearings, he is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto, his maker...