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...ball on the green, say, 20 or 25 feet from the cup. The expert is closer, say, 12 to 15 feet. But each will take two putts and halve the hole. If the cups were bigger, the average player still would take his two putts . . . but the expert . . . would knock his in every time. There would be the thrill. . . . The payoff in golf is to get that second shot close...
Intermission came with its clutter and shuffle of scenery. While he waited for the callboy's knock, Scotti tried to smoke one of his long, monogrammed cigarets, but his mouth was too parched. He had never been so nervous, he decided, not even on that first night in Malta 43 years ago when it had seemed fantastic that he, son of a Neapolitan grocer, intended for the priesthood, should be singing in opera. Finally the knock came...
...given they fumed at this change of opinion. Said one angry editor: "Philip Hill might be expected to receive congratulations and possibly even mention in the next honors list for bringing a great British company back to British control. But instead the Treasury has selected its largest club to knock him on the head...
...horseback ride from 9 to 10 a. m. Lunching at the officers' mess, where both Japanese and Western food is served, he often orders ham & eggs, washes them down with tea at a total cost of one yen (50? at par, now about 7?). Younger officers knock off about 4 o'clock for tennis or other sports. Not so the tireless oldsters and Lieut.-General Araki who is 55. He always works until 6, then goes to his club or directly home to a pleasant villa with a formal Japanese garden. On the walls hang Japanese paintings, many...
...autumn Tibbett opened the Manhattan opera season (TIME, Nov. 28). an honor the Metropolitan has given to only one other male singer, the late great Tenor Caruso. Tenors are naturally the heroes of most operas just as pitchers are the heroes of ball games. Baritones, like catchers, have to knock homeruns to be noticed and their chances at conspicuous parts come less often than a catcher's turn at bat. Tibbett's homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields, combined to make...