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...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...
...plenty of room for two of us as long as he don't go climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo has two shiners, the cop one. ∙ ∙ Jack Dempsey is making personal appearances with a small-time circus. He referees side-show boxing matches, doubles occasionally as barker. ∙ ∙ After 28 years in Hollywood, 60-year-old Cecil Blount de Mille had his footprints recorded in the cement outside...
...sure of winning, he will need lots of Republican votes, for Irish-born (in County Mayo), 51 -year-old Judge O'Dwyer is not exactly a pushover. A onetime longshoreman, plasterer's helper, he started pounding New York City's pavements as a rookie cop just 24 years...
...years "The Colonel" held the position in which he was best known, Chief Yard cop. His cry of "Break it up" as he headed for the focal point of any riot or disturbance became famous in the annals of the College...
...democracy," he would say pontifically, "when a fellow like me, just because he's black, can't get a job in the factories getting rich off of defense contracts." Behind the pickets the White House grounds stretched, green and rich, to the gleaming white mansion. The cop on the corner groaned at the task of protecting "them sorry sons a'bitches." (They needed protection. Recently a Marine jumped on a picket and beat him up with his belt.) A carload of Indiana tourists stopped to stare. The cop made them move on. Said he bitterly: "That there...