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...tried to pick out the two most contrasting personalities in the field of 144 golfers who were playing in the U. S. Open tournament at Inverness last week, you might have selected the two who tied for the championship after 72 holes. One was George Von Elm, a trim blond haired little man with self confidence so noticeable that it approaches conceit, who played in the Open last year as an amateur. A few months later, describing himself as a "business man golfer" he set about playing against professionals for money prizes, made a good business of it by tying...
...angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown. The red track in Lincoln's municipal stadium was fast...
...Keith Gledhill, tall, blond-haired Stanford University sophomore: the intercollegiate tennis championship; beating Bruce Barnes of Texas, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 in the finals at Haverford...
Cast as the heroine of Playwright Harris' coy flirtation with the Facts of Life is blond Margaret Sullavan, an authentic theatrical find. Her previous experience was with Princeton's McCarter Theatre and as understudy to the leading lady in a road company of Strictly Dishonorable. She has a mild Southern accent which she keeps from becoming unpleasant, does her best to be charming and ingenuous in her messy role. The novelist is played by Roger Pryor (Up Pops the Devil). He also lets fresh air into the play, prevents it from getting too blue around the edges...
Meanwhile District Attorney Buron Fitts had an entirely different clue. He showed to Crawford's stenographers the photograph of a tall, athletic young man with a blond mustache. . . . Next day David Harris Clark, former deputy district attorney, candidate for municipal judge (backed by McAfee) in this week's election, walked into the Hall of Justice and surrendered to his recent chief. Wise to the ways of prosecutor and press, he would make no statement. But with the information that Candidate Clark had bought a .38 calibre revolver the day before the killing (and paid for it with...