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...years, bookmakers have been quoting odds on tournament-playing golf pros as if they were race horses. Last week Chicago's Tam O' Shanter Country Club went the bookies one better: for its $15,000 Open, it asked the pros to wear numbers on their backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Numbers Racket | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Unquestionably one of the finest films to visit Boston in many moons, Josephine Baker's "Princesse Tam-Tam" had its American premiere at the Fine Arts yesterday afternoon. Miss Baker, who returns to her native land in celluloid. left St. Louis in the early Twenties to become and to remain the cabaret sensation of Europe. Like most of her ilk, she cannot sing, but she can dance, twisting her dusky body into unbelievable contortions in time to primitive rhythm. Though it smacks more of Harlem than of Africa, locale of the picture, her "La Conga" dance alone is enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

...symbol "for all that is crooked, slimy, unpatriotic, and sinister in politics in any machine ridden city." Starved of national and city patronage, riddled by internal discussion and confronted by a real District Attorney, some leaders of the Wigwam may soon turn the Bridge of Sighs into a Tam-many wailing wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUDGE OR THE TIGER | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Good Good 12 10 No. Conway, N.H. Good Good 0 19 No. W'dst'ck, N.H. Good Good --2 26 Pink'm Ntch, N.H. Good Good --6 27 Plymouth, N.H. Good Good --6 27 Stowe, Vt. Good Good --8 10 Sun'pee Reg., N.H. Good Good 4 12 Tam. Region, N.H. Good Good 20 22 Warren, N.H. Good Good 10 20 W't'rv'le Val., N.H. Good Good --12 30 Whitefield, N.H. Good Good --4 14 Wolfeboro, N.H. Good Good 6 16 Woodstock, Vt. Good Good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Ski Conditions Are Fine | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

...materials which has enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Laborers Together | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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