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...neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...
Once-beaten Lowell, with a squad of 17 players, will meet sixth-place Pierson minus the services of star back Dick Lewis, but the Bellboys appear to hold the edge over their Blue opponents. The Slaves, however, took their last four games to provide a whirlwind finish to their season...
...page autobiography, that anecdote was symbolic of her singleminded, 23-year fight against police, courts, churchmen and ridicule to legalize birth control in the U. S. Most of the public highlights of her story-Congressional lobbying, duels with the Catholic Church, her sensational visit to Japan in 1922, a whirlwind missionary tour of India-are well known. But her beginnings-as the sixth of eleven children of a free-thinking tombstone carver in Corning, N. Y., as a nurse on Manhattan's lower East Side, and as a central member of the group of famous pre-War radicals which...
Britain's indefatigable one-man Peace Crusade, venerable George Lansbury, M.P., who resigned as Leader of the British Labor Party largely because it was not pacifist enough for him, left London this week on another whirlwind European tour, this time of 17 days. Two years ago he talked with President Roosevelt, last year with Dictators Mussolini and Hitler; this time Mr. Lansbury has been promised audiences by Hungarian Regent Admiral Horthy, Bulgarian Tsar Boris, Rumanian King Carol, Yugoslav Regent Prince Paul...
...airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first by the now-forgotten Diego Martinez Barrio, then by Republican José Giral Pereira...