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Nursing a shoulder fractured two months ago in a springboard dive, on his 40th birthday Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was found in an Asheville, N. C. resort hotel by the New York Post. Jittery and moody, he moped about his hotelroom, rambled to his interviewer between drinks: "One is not waiting for the fadeout of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own Personality. . . . I lost my grip." Asked what he thought about the neurotics of the '20's whom he pictures in This Side of Paradise...
This sage comment on "What It Takes To Win" was contributed to the program of the 40th U. S. Open tournament by famed Robert Tyre Jones Jr., present at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club last week as a spectator. If, sitting in the locker room after he had finished playing, he had chanced to read it, Golfer Harry Cooper of Chicago might have felt reassured. Cooper had just posted not 287 but 284. This was the best score ever made in the Open, two strokes better than the record made by Chick Evans at Minikahda in 1916. only...
First day of the 40th U. S. Open was a surprise to the field of 164 players assembled from 28 golfing districts as the best the U.S. had to offer. Baltusrol's Upper course-entirely distinct from the Lower, where the Amateur was played ten years ago-proved unexpectedly easy. Fourteen scores were under par 72. After two rounds, the field was cut to the low 60. Seventeen golfers tied for 60th with 151. Defending Champion Sam Parks, who profited less from his title than any other Open winner since the War, was eliminated with a score...
...East 40th, New York City. We try to show each little utility The lack of charm and utter futility Of being bad, and how to be good And stay on the path of rectitude. But if on that road they run amuck, We'll ride them down with the big Mack...
...London that he does not really consider Manhattan a huge fleshpot, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, patted his round stomach and expanded: "Why, if Oliver Cromwell were alive today and seeking to find the company most congenial to him he would probably find it on the 40th floor of an apartment building in New York." Becoming a chorus-girl in London, 21-year-old Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill, announced: "My parents are putting up no objections. I made up my mind to become an actress when I was in socks." Down upon a San Francisco landing...