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Perhaps to keep up with TIME I should have written: Sirs: I'll wager TIME's phalanstery does not embrace TIME's conatus at the laconical when it used "obsquatulate" where "beat" would not only have sufficed but improved...
...expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager-for instance, a $500 bet that the player cannot jump over his tennis racket...
...size in the country. I should like to have you personally spend an evening with any of our fine family, club or social groups, or spend a day talking and visiting with our business and professional men on Cermak Road, or the side business streets, and I'll wager that thereafter your opinion would not be so biased...
...watch with a guy that Lee Dixon, premier lover of the U. S. fleet, could garner a garter from Miss Martin, premiere iceberg of the Republic of Panama. In the meantime, Miss Martin has fallen for her hero, and he for her, but when she learns of the wager, she calls the affair off until the final curtain...
Instead of sparing the slightly unbalanced Gates national notoriety, Whitey imported sound trucks and reporters for one of Dartmouth's biggest publicity outbursts. We doubt if Gates found the "peace" he sought, but we'd willingly wager that with Whitey as his manager, he could clean up in a sideshow circuit...