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...sharply trapped, rolling course with an annoying barranco and plenty of trees. The California women who had been paying their fares eastward year after year were to be given a chance at home. Nevertheless, impartial critics did not give them much chance against the little group of top-notch players from the East-National Champion Glenna Collett; broad-shouldered, jut-jawed Maureen Orcutt; chubby, thick-muscled Helen Hicks; Virginia Van Wie of Chicago...
...stars generally run somewhere near true to form, but a distinguishing feature of women's competition is that the best players can never be depended on. Yet as play went smoothly on last week, it became evident that for once the expected upsets were not occurring. The top-notch players moved up without exception and the nearest thing to a surprise was when Mrs. Hill put out Maureen Orcutt in the quarterfinal. In the semifinal Miss Collett had her first real competition, but made it easy by winning the first three holes and outdriving Helen Hicks, said...
Members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club had their first big climb of the year last Sunday and yesterday when they ascended one of the vertical cliffs of the Franconian Notch in New Hampshire...
Says he: Publishers Simon & Schuster have most successfully developed the art of "panicking" the public into buying their books-books often intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature...
Colyumist Arthur Brisbane most rouses the Notch ire. Brisbane's manner of commenting upon world events is thus described: "Two subway diggers, or two stockbrokers, exhausted by the day's work, stand, half-comatose, at the bar of an old-fashioned saloon; between long, refreshing pulls at their schooners they utter, effortlessly and comfortingly, their dazed views on the fall of empires and the rise of Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science...