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...been causing Sam some embarrassment, because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...
Also appointed was Ernest Einer Monrad '51 of Tucson, Arizona and Apley Court, who will manage the varsity in the 1951 season. Edward Selig Epstein '51 of New York City and Lowell House will be head freshman manager next season...
...Tucson last week, chubby little Barbara Willis was dying of leukemia, but nobody had told her how sick she was. When the 13-year-old youngster developed a strange craving for watermelon, not available in Tucson, her doctor appealed to the Arizona Daily Star for help. It promptly asked its readers to help Barbara. To keep the truth of her sickness from her, Barbara's parents hid the newspaper. But that only made Barbara suspicious. She guessed that she was dying, and she refused to eat anything at all. Desperately, Barbara's mother appealed to the Star...
Once before, the Star had done something like that. In 1938, when General John J. Pershing was critically ill in Tucson, the Star had minimized his illness in a special edition of one copy printed for him every day. Last week the Star printed a one-copy edition for Barbara. Said the special story: "Barbara is getting along just fine. She's going to be all right before long." In the Star's regular edition, the rest of Tucson was let in on the secret...
While he was taking things easy, Campbell joined the Thirteen Club ("All lungers-twelve of 'em died"), became editor of the Tucson Citizen, and went to Mexico to cover a revolution. When the Republican National Committee bought the Citizen, Campbell, though a Republican himself, quit ("I couldn't take dictation from any pressure group...