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Even Perkins by this time was ready to stop waiting in the locker-room. He joined the crowd that was waiting at the 18th green to watch Sarazen play his 286th shot, an 8-ft. putt. It was a noisy crowd, impatient to cheer Sarazen for equaling Bobby Jones's unique feat of winning the British and U. S. Opens in the same year. The crowd swarmed over the traps, over the edge of the green, past the course marshals until there was only a tight 20-ft. circle around Sarazen and his ball. Perkins tried to look over...
Returned to power after a brief eclipse (TIME, May 30 to June 20). Premier Eleutherios Venizelos has a new cheer with which to keep Greece's fickle Parliament loyal. Back in the U. S. after a visit to Athens, Professor William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps last week revealed that he had taught Yale's famed Brekekekex cheer to the Premier at luncheon. "The long Yale cheer is the only one in the world . . . most of which is in Greek," said...
...first two lines of Yale's Brekekekex are taken from the chorus of The Frogs by Aristophanes. The words are not Greek, but represent the noise Aristophanes thought frogs make. The cheer...
...shouted it at Venizelos during the service of luncheon and he shouted it back to me. Then I shouted it back to him. When we left the governmental palace ... we rode in a state landau and Venizelos shouted the cheer at us from the steps when we were driving off. The Premier seemed very fond of the cheer and we could hear him quite a way down the street...
...showing improvement," he said. "But in time the larger ones must necessarily follow. ... I would attribute much more importance to the increase in electric power consumption in the country during the last two weeks than to stock or bond quotations." Only factors tending to discredit this Dawesian cheer last week were his past record and the still-sagging index of business conditions. In General Dawes's record are the following utterances: "People do not realize that conditions are gradually improving." June 5, 1930. "It [the moratorium] is an augury of improved financial conditions." June 20, 1931. In Chicago, General Dawes...