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...Langer's voice was growing hoarse, and his face pale and haggard. By 5 o'clock he was in obvious distress. Humphrey, fresh and trim after a midnight shower and shave, sidled up to him. "I can stay until 6 o'clock," hissed Langer. "Go get some sleep...
...standard routine in going after the big boys (300 Ibs. and up) is to use a batch of expensive equipment, hire a trim cruiser with a smart crew, then settle comfortably into a special swivel chair and wait for the fish to bite. Commander Hodgson got his tuna the hard...
...little Ozark town of Steelville, Mo. (pop. 1,013), a trim, white-mous-tached old physician was busy last week trying to prove that most of his life had been misspent. For more than 40 years, Dr. John Zahorsky had specialized in pediatrics and practiced in big St. Louis hospitals. Now 79, Dr. Zahorsky was back in his old home town, bent on proving that an alert country doctor can do as much with a minimum of modern equipment as a passel of specialists with all the shiny facilities of a big-city hospital...
Publisher Helen Reid of the Herald Tribune, as appalled as Parsons, sent Buel Weare, the New York Trib's syndicate manager, hustling to Paris to take over from Wise, who had resigned. Weare started to trim the small (19 men) editorial staff, and cut the Herald's eight-page editions to six and sometimes four pages. Month ago, Editor Parsons got a cable from Mrs. Reid to come home for a conference. There he learned that Weare had made another recommendation: lop off the editor's job-and Parsons' $19,500 salary-and combine the editor...
Going into the last nine holes of the "All-American" round, Locke seemed hopelessly out of the running. His outgoing 36 had been right on par, but dapper Lloyd Mangrum was already sitting comfortably in the clubhouse with a trim 282 for the 72 holes. To tie, Bobby needed an incoming 31, i.e., five birdies in the last nine holes. He did it. His rusty old putter herded in putts of 10, 32, 12, 30, and 22 feet, for a five-under...