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...closing holes, both notoriously troublesome par fours, have not ruined as many scores as fans think. On the eve of the 39th Masters, Snead played and analyzed the six most challenging holes for TIME with Senior Correspondent (and twelve-handicapper) John Steele. Here is Snead's personal vade mecum...
Last year more than 7,000 Soviet citizens visited the U.S.-many of them armed with the official Russian-English Phrasebook, now in its third printing by Moscow's Foreign Literature Publishing House. Far from bridging the communications gap between East and West, this vade mecum is sure to cause confusion if not some international incidents...
...group leads the world." Among Europe's tire and rubber goods producers, Pirelli is "about equal with Michelin." Worldwide, Pirelli acknowledged, his group is far behind such giants as Goodyear and Firestone, but that didn't seem to bother him. He does not intend to in vade their home markets in the U.S.; and therefore, "in the main, it will be a battle between our subsidiaries and their subsidiaries in specific markets, and in many cases our branches will be bigger than theirs...
Control to Batt. Of one thing there was little doubt - President Batt controls SKF Industries completely. In April 1940, when it appeared that the Nazis would in vade Sweden, he began negotiations with SKF (Sweden), which is 99.5% Swedish-owned, and which then owned 74% of SKF Industries and another subsidiary, SKF Steel. At Batt's request, SKF turned over to him its U.S. holdings, in trust, till war's end. Last week Batt brushed off rumors that the real boss of SKF Industries is Count Hugo von Rosen, whose brother is a Swedish quisling. Said Batt: Count...
...patron saint of gag men. He was a celebrated player of comedy parts in the plays of Shakespeare, Congreve, Jonson, Fielding, etc. His name, after his death in 1738, was fastened to a book of 247 jokes, sayings, anecdotes (Joe Miller's Jests; or The Wits Vade-Mecum). It was a best-seller and, with hundreds of added jokes, inevitably became the comedian's Bible...