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...Open on a hot June day in 1929. Now 28, medium-sized, dark-haired, lightly built and generally considered to have more finesse with his iron clubs than any other professional except Tommy Armour, Shute by his victory last week made it seem that he was the likeliest of the younger professionals to acquire the prestige which has been shared for the last decade by Sarazen and Hagen...
Pupils were needed. They advertised for a girl to do office work in exchange for art lessons, and from the first 300 applicants picked ten of the likeliest. The art pupils served as models for others to paint, played the piano for others to dance, scrubbed the floors for singing lessons, typed letters for violin lessons. Because of a Polish cook's desire to make a dancer of her daughter, the faculty has been fed. There have been enough cash pupils to pay the rent. Since then they have been busy as a brewery. When reporters called last week...
...Aintree. Dusty Foot's jockey this week was to be his owner's friend, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S. Pete Bostwick went to England last autumn planning to ride one of his own steeplechasers in the Grand National, but his likeliest mount, Burglar, trained badly. Last week he accepted the Whitney horse...
...commission to Congress. Nothing was said about the certain rejection by Congress of this recommendation. Secretary Stimson's language to Britain made it plain that the Hoover Administration considered her plight graver than France's or Belgium's, that revision by capacity-to-pay would be likeliest in her case...
...entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other mail planes to arrive. Rivière's aim is to "love the men under your orders but do not let them know it." Cold hostility for the minor inefficiencies that, in a flying service, are the likeliest causes of catastrophe, makes him appallingly but mercifully severe. While Riviere waits, two of the planes arrive. Fabien's young wife comes to the airport to inquire about him. Says Riviere: "Unfortunately, neither you nor I can do anything except wait." Meanwhile, Fabien's plane is being wrecked...