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...last week most golf authorities had been heard from on the subject of the new cups. Leo Diegel, Al Espinosa, John Dawson, John De Forest, playing in West Coast tournaments, liked the idea. U. S. G. A. officials thought Sarazen might have suggested it to keep his name in print...
Many centuries ago, runs a Chinese legend, a lion wandering through a forest spied a monkey and fell in love with her. Despairing at the discrepancy in their sizes, he prayed his lord & protector Buddha that he might be dwarfed. Buddha answered the plea of the lion, who promptly married his monkey-love. . . . One result of that storied union was to be seen last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel...
...bales. . . . Have these gentlemen 'any suggestions as to how foreigners shall pay for the goods they buy from us?" That, most responsible economists agree, is the biggest flaw in "Buy American." Even last year the U. S. exported about $1,500,000,000 of farm, factory, mine and forest products. Foreign countries must sell to the U. S. goods or services of an equal value or pay in gold. And foreigners have already paid so much gold that many of them have been forced off the gold standard. Japan cannot buy Texas cotton unless she sells electric light bulbs...
...From Singapore we went into the jungles in a Ford just as though we were driving up Fifth Avenue. We forgot all about snake boots and the accessories you buy in outing stores. . . . Mr. Grimson would go up into the forest to persuade the natives to come down out of the trees to pose. We had a grand sort of Englishman with us. 'Hi there,' he would call, 'do you want some nice beads for your wife? Very well then, come down and pose.' I had my armature and clay mounted on the trunk rack behind...
...Birth Control, bobbed up in a committee report, revised during the past four years, on Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian Rev. Dr. David de Forest Burrell moved to strike out both passages. In their defense, Presbyterian Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, said: "Presbyterians practice birth control more than they practice anything else. In our universities there are thousands of young people who are discussing this important problem far more seriously...