Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty Pounds On. In 1937, two years before he quit tennis, California-born Ellsworth Vines took his first golf lesson. He had two handicaps from tennis: a pair of glasses, the result of eye-strain in night matches; and an overdeveloped right wrist that once stroked the most devastating forehand in tennis. By 1942, he had chopped his game from the 90s to the 70s and become golf pro at the Southern California Golf & Country Club. When he became a fulltime playing pro last year, his tee shots were usually long & straight, his irons still wobbly. But on the greens...
...strangeness and the strain of the U.S. wartime alliance with Soviet Russia was guessed at by the U.S. public, but the public had only suspicions to go on. Now in a sober, fact-packed book, a man who knows a great deal about it, Major General John R. Deane, describes what was perhaps the most one-sided friendship in history...
...Cool of the Evening. In South Carolina, when the sun sets and the day's work is done (but the strain of the day still lingers in mind and muscle), when the restless dust starts to settle back on the cotton fields, men gather on verandahs and wharves to sit and talk while they watch the bullbats nervously darting and swooping around the chimneys. Bourbon with water from the branch is in order-and low-voiced, scattered talk of high politics. Such a talk Jimmy Byrnes calls a "bullbat session." He loves them. In 1946 the bullbat session-bourbon...
...have a centrally heated, spotless, well-furnished six-room apartment. The Teeses don't save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while it's there...
Stairway to Heaven (Rank; Universal-International)* might be an exceptionally good picture if it didn't strain so desperately to be a great one. It is an imaginative, beautifully Technicolored, British-made fantasy that often trips over its own lofty pretensions...