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Musing on fighting words that could be and had been legally sent through the mails. General Hugh Samuel Johnson, himself no tyro at invective and abuse, suggested a few more: '"asymptote" ("a daisy of a word"), "parasang," "Cush-ping Dishpit." ("an evil sound and no meaning"), "yellow-bellied sap-sucker," "boat-bottomed grackel." "bottle-nosed puffin...
After the first round of medal play over Oakmont's tricky, rain-soaked course, one of the arguments was stilled. Ellsworth Vines got an 86, had no chance of being included among the 64 low scorers who qualified for the six rounds of match-play elimination. Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott...
...private railroad car. Others came in trailers, camped behind the clubhouse. A doctor commuted from Cincinnati by plane. The week's 15 events offered $50,000 in prizes. In the Grand American Handicap, big prize event of the meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins, and the same person never wins twice...
Sliding down ropes is an essential part of the Radcliffe Freshman's education. Designed to prepare the tyro for emergencies, knowledge of the technique would be particularly pertinent in case of fire...
Author Rattigan is 25. Three years ago his diplomat father, Frank Rattigan, C. M. G., gave him a year in which to prove himself better suited for playwriting than for the diplomatic service. Son Terence wrote six plays, collected five rejection slips. In November 1935, two weeks before Tyro Rattigan's year was up, French Without Tears was accepted, staged last year in London where it is still running. Paramount Pictures bought the screen rights...