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...game over, he grabbed his sweatshirt off the floor, brushed ahead of several less cager exercisers to be the first to get a drink at the fountain, and vanished in a flurry of propelling hands and legs...
Last summer, for the first time, she entered the Women's National partly because it was being played over her home course, Interlachen. Reporters were amazed by Patty's earnestness, her freckles, her costume of a boy's sweatshirt and the assurance with which, though she weighs only 110 and is just over 5 ft., she consistently drove 200 yards. Patty Berg amazed them further by beating five opponents in a row. In the final, she played Mrs. Vare. The match appeared to be over when "Glenna" was 4 up with six holes left to play. Patty...
...noon recess bell rang through the halls of Tacoma's Lowell School one day last week, books slapped shut, doors banged open and the boys tramped out toward home and lunch. A slim nine-year-old named George Weyerhaeuser loafed along in a sweatshirt and tennis shoes discussing with a friend the form and technique of competitive jumping. The friends parted and George proceeded to nearby Annie Wright Seminary, there to wait for his 13-year-old Sister Anne to come out and be driven home by the Weyerhaeuser chauffeur. A mother of one of the Wright girls spoke...
Spitz, now a lanky phlegmatic sophomore, who is studying at New York University to become a dentist, nonchalantly began to remove his overgarments at about the time his rivals began to have serious trouble clearing the bar. He took off his flannel trousers at 6:4, his sweatshirt at 6:5. On his feet he wore shoes of kangaroo skin, made to order, with pin spikes and crepe rubber soles, lighter than those of his confreres. Spectators noticed peculiarities in his style, occasioned by the fact that he learned to high jump without the supervision of an experienced coach...
...sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult to see how the usual ad-getting sweatshirt gathering competition shapes one for the executive chair of a large corporation. It is much easier to believe the figures of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business world. As the problems of manufacture and distribution grow...