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This winter, for the 13th year, 29-year-old Jimmy Demaret took time out from his teaching job to join the country's top-notch professionals in the circuit of southern tournaments-still hoping, after years of picking up nothing but experience, to pick up a little cash and prestige. Two years ago he licked famed Sam Snead in the San Francisco Match Play tournament. Last year he won the Los Angeles Open. In golf, almost anything can happen...
...13th Day. But the lull had been like the momentary quiet of a thunderstorm before a terrific crash. The worst began on the 13th day of fighting. Supported by heavy artillery and airplanes that bombarded the Finnish lines day and night, the Russians threw fresh troops and tanks against the vital Summa sector, where the villages of Summa and Kamara guarded the road and railroad to Viipuri (see map}. Simultaneously they attacked in the middle of the isthmus, trying to force the defiles between the chain of isthmus lakes and encircle Lake Muolaa. This action, if successful, would flank...
During and after the reign of the late, 13th Dalai Lama, China and England jockeyed for influence in Tibet. The Chinese established a radio station and a school (said the China Year Book: "The curriculum of the school consists principally of Chinese and commonsense"). The British put in another radio station (which worked better than the Chinese) and established a diplomatic mission, headed at present by a capable civil servant, Basil john Gould...
Seamen are traditionally suspicious folk, and so I was not unduly disturbed by Dickson's pessimistic face as we sailed out of Algeciras Bay on Friday, the 13th October. Dickson was a cabin steward aboard S.S. Yorkshire, and I was a passenger...
...remains of a building which he identified as the palace of Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who was always dishing out advice and talking about his early exploits. Pottery found on the floors was dated near the close of the 13th Century B. C., putative time of the siege of Troy. Digger Blegen declared that more than 600 clay tablets, apparently bearing lists of persons, inventories of domestic animals, cereal supplies, etc., disprove the idea that the Achaeans of the Homeric period were "a body of illiterate adventurers who imposed their...