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...mill owner. He corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...
...gained three strokes at that hole and three at the next, where Guldahl again went into the water. But the way Guldahl played at Augusta convinced Sportswriter O. B. Keeler that his defeat was not due to lack of either courage or technique. Adding one more to its string of lucky or prescient articles (TIME, May 24), the Saturday Evening Post last week carried a biography of Golfer Guldahl written two months ago by Sportswriter Keeler, which, if bookmakers at Oakland Hills had been sophisticated journalists, might well have caused them to shorten their Guldahl odds...
Last week in New York, Pitcher Hubbell walked out to the pitcher's box to try to extend his string to 25 against the Brooklyn Dodgers, as a preface to receiving a prize for being the most valuable National League player of 1936. When the game ended, Pitcher Hubbell needed the prize for consolation. Aided by able pitching from towering Van Lingle Mungo, one of Hubbell's few real rivals, Brooklyn had knocked him out of the box in the fourth inning, beaten the Giants...
...Lowell House tower there is a stirring. No lights, but a sinister, dark figure outlined vaguely against the open window. Someone sneaking up there to shatter the silence of a pre-exam night by jazzing those mad Russian bells? No. A quiet retreat wherein to grind out a futile string of oaths to help relieve the jitters...
...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...