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Several of golf's elder statesmen, including ex-Champion Gene Sarazen, have predicted that Ellsworth Vines will one day become U.S. golf champion.* In his shaky beginning last week, Vines looked as if he had some distance still to go. He finished 15 strokes behind the winner. Said he: "Somehow, there don't seem to be more than two or three good tennis players at one time . . . but golf is different. You must whip an awful lot of fellows to get on top." Some of the "awful lot" were among the 130 who teed off at Los Angeles...
...elderly woman of Worcester, Mass., who stood on a street corner futilely waving while bus after crowded bus passed her by. Finally, she stepped in front of one, stamped her foot and for 20 minutes she and the driver fought a duel of wills as obdurate as two peacemaking statesmen. This unidentified Worcesterite, impatient at the complexities that lay between her and simple goals, was the Woman of the Year...
From China: In almost every major international conference since Versailles, the world's diplomats have known Wellington Koo, now China's calm, clearheaded Ambassador to the U.S. Few statesmen are more at home amid the intricacies of world politics and economics (he was China's Foreign Minister six times and has been its ambassador to most of the major capitals of the western world). A staunch champion of world organization, Dr. Koo was China's man at the League of Nations, the pleader for its action to halt Japanese aggression. At San Francisco...
...note (and vote) for James Francis Byrnes, Secretary of State, who, with the aid of his two great bipartisan statesmen-advisers, has given reassurance of the possibility of building a substantial . . . structure of international cooperation...
...shown admirable restraint in keeping esoteric G.I. jokes to a minimum. Instead, he has relied on situations which are capable of convulsing anyone who is at all aware of the fantastic age (or lack thereof) of Air Corps colonels or the Claghorn quality of certain Southern statesmen...