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...when 173 of America 5 golfing Big Shots besieged Fort Worth, they found its Colonial Club as tough a layout as they had ever seen. A par 70 course, its narrow fairways are bordered by groves of pecan trees, swamps, ravines and the chocolate-colored Trinity River that meanders stray-catlike over the course. Its tough Bermuda grass was an annoying novelty to many. And two days of rain had brought out chiggers-the pesky little red bugs that burrow into human flesh and start an itch worse than a mosquito bite...
Like all Harvard buildings, the Bio Lab has picked up a few stray or temporary occupants whose tenure now seems permanent. In the basement, sandwiched between cold storage rooms and fish tanks, the Harvard Film Service produces motion pictures for the school of education and records programs of the undergraduate Radio Workshop. In a sunny first floor room the Cambridge Red Cross rolls bandages for Britain, and upstairs the federal government's Department of Interior maintains a research headquarters for its Fish and Wild Life Service. Weekending in Maine and splitting their Cambridge days between laboratories and fishing boats...
...worked off & on as a screen writer. In a neatly organized yarn about a little Jew named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms the composite Hollywood, fits it into a whole like a mammoth jigsaw puzzle...
...Women's Closed (closed to anyone under 50)-were nearly 200 crackerjack shufflers. Unlike most national championships, this tournament was marked by fun and frolic. Spectators and contestants chatted back & forth, on every subject from the blizzards back home to next summer's crops. A stray dog scampered on to the courts, gave the players a merry chase. When a shower started, everyone adjourned to a covered grandstand, spent an hour singing old favorites...
...Germans carried recording equipment to make transcriptions of prisoners' comments for propaganda uses. A microphone was hidden in the women's prison to pick up stray bits of information. Officers pumped them for details on sailing dates and destinations. When a diminishing food supply forced the Germans to land some of the prisoners at Emirau, the men were ordered to sign a declaration pledging themselves to noncombatancy for the rest of the war. Those who refused were kept on the prison ship, along with the crews of three other vessels...