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...National Preaching Mission to revivify the spiritual life of the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 28). This venture, first of its kind, enlisted the aid of 70 U. S., Canadian and British religionists who in groups of various sizes visited 25 U.S. localities. Conceived originally by one-time Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., the project cost $60,000 of which two-thirds was raised by local churches, the rest by private donations, John D. Rockefeller Jr. being put down for a modest contribution. With details of transportation handled by Secretary Jesse Moren Bader...
...failed to qualify. Tony Manero, U. S. Open champion, played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig Wood. Wild Bill Melhorn appeared...
...first major tournament-the British Open in 1933-Densmore Shute did what most playing professionals predicted would speedily ruin his game. Instead of joining the troupe who spend the whole year playing golf for prizes, he calmly continued giving lessons. Shute's lack of competitive sharpening and Thomson's prodigious driving made Thomson a 2-to-1 favorite in last week's final. Out-driven on every hole, sometimes as much as 125 yards, on a course where distance counts, Shute played down the middle of the fairways. Thomson lost the first hole. He caught...
Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity. By no means so pompous in his professional recollections as Sir Basil Thomson, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (The Story of Scotland Yard), Melvin Horace Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete...
...gesture of international goodwill the English-Speaking Union presented Washington's Smithsonian Institution with a bronze bust of renowned 19th Century Physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, From English scientists came a 1,500-word greeting. Scottish scientists parsimoniously cabled: "Felicitations...