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Dapper Walter Hagen used to stride out to the first tee, often late for his match, run a comb through his Brilliantined hair and drawl: "Well, who's going to be second?" "The Haig's" psychological warfare continued through the match. He made the hard shots look easy, the easy ones look stupendous. Early in a match he would concede putts to his opponent, later rattle him by insisting that even the short ones be played out. No matter how poorly Walter seemed to be shooting, nobody relaxed until he was in. But where Hagen deliberately played...
...almost three months since Harry Truman had put in a full week of uninterrupted work at his desk. Last week he got back into the swing of his job as if his stride had never been broken...
Such convictions soon proved correct. As soon as the Band sounded off on the Brown medley, they hit their stride and many aisle-sitters kept craning their necks to see when the big drum would roll down past them to the stage. The big drum didn't appear, but the especially sonorous piping of the clarinets during the Brown number set the stage for a bear that seemed likely to pop out through the curtains at any minute and shuffle up to the podium. In spite of the ten sousaphones looming up at the back of the stage, the Brown...
Knowing that the "murderer" often enjoys such a secure feeling during the preliminary grilling-and that the ways of journalism are not the ways of science-Ecker and Brine took this friendly admonition in stride and proceeded to exploit the clues that Oppenheimer had given them about the forces that had shaped his life. Accepting his theory that "education is apprenticeship," they set TIME'S world-wide network of correspondents to work seeking out the men he had apprenticed himself to- from San Francisco to Copenhagen-and cross-checking Oppenheimer's impressions with them...
...opportunities, but not at the expense of her fellow players who prove, anyhow, that they can look out for themselves. Althea Murphy as Ellic Dunn, Robert Harris as Boss Mangan, and Michael Sivy as the burglar are especially good. Polly Rowles' Lady Utterwood gets into the right stride in the third...