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...course at Roehampton, England, is a bad hole for golfers who do not hit a long ball. On an April day, when the turf is moist and a bright wind is blowing off the tee-flag into your nose, the second hole is not an easy hole at all. Abe Mitchell knows this. Until that hole he had been doing very well in the Roehampton invitation-the first British professional tournament of the year. Rugged and jaunty after a hibernation at St. Albans (where, under the patronage of a wealthy enthusiast, he has been pursuing his studies), he had dealt...
After he left Enid, Bates spent $50,000 collecting evidence and affidavits to substantiate this proof. He published The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, This is that book enlarged; romanticized by the keen, sympathetic author of The Soul of Ann Rutledge and The Soul of Abe Lincoln...
...Lincoln, a big, slow-spoken man, slick at hunting and swapping, but not clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion...
...that is mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles. Abe and Mawruss appear at length, however, fond anachronisms in a friendly quarrel over "Keeping Expenses Down...
...Saint Albans, England. A great gallery came out from London to see "Long" James Barnes, Open Champion of Great Britain (TIME, July 6), play a 36-hole match against Abe Mitchell, watched him hook, slice, dig, and go down to defeat 7 up and 6 to go, after winning only 3 holes...