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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Player interviews were granted by playing-manager Carodny for the first time this year. He himself permitted his usual taciturnity to give way to a mellow expansiveness in summarizing the game: "Sic transit..." he smiled coyly...
...caddy Demaret tips his caddies as much as $150 for a tournament (the usual pro's tip: $5 a round). In match play, Demaret usually does badly. After Ben Hogan drubbed him 10 and 9 last year in the P.G.A. Championship semifinals, newsmen asked what was the turning point of the match. Replied Jimmy dryly: "When Hogan showed up." But Jimmy has won the prized Masters' Tournament twice...
Most of the guests left early. Churchill, who had worked as usual the night before, rested in the afternoon. At dinner Churchill was grim and silent. At 9 p.m. he asked Sawyers, the butler, to bring the radio to the table. It was a $15 portable that Harry Hopkins had given him. There was a burst of music as he tuned it; then the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Churchill jumped up and started out of the room...
...past decade, James Laughlin IV, rebellious great-grandson of the co-founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel, has subsidized a publishing house (New Directions) that has scorned the usual commercial limitations of the U.S. book business. Ready to face financial losses, Laughlin has put out cheap reprints of modern classics (e.g., Alain-Fournier's The Wanderer), little-known but excellent European books and works by young American writers which no other publisher would take a chance...
...honest man in the last twenty years has been able to write about Harvard football, for there gas been none. . . . College football in New England . . . is in its usual mess." --October...