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...spectacular players in the field were two young Texas clerks, Reynolds Smith and David Goldman. They went to the tournament together when an airline offered them free transportation in case of vacancies. They rented a $7-a-week room. Smith, who had lost his suitcase in Cleveland, borrowed a pair of baggy trousers. On the fifth day of the tournament there were four golfers left out of the 184. Two of them were Goldman and Smith. As they had often done in Texas, where Smith usually wins, they played each other. Goldman...
Middleweight. When Thaddeus Jarosz (Teddy Yarosz) of Monaca, Pa. was eight years old, his father caught him practicing with a pair of boxing gloves. Enraged, Father Jarosz seized an axe, hacked the gloves to pieces. Before the biggest crowd (28,000) that ever attended a prizefight in Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Teddy Yarosz last week used another pair of gloves to hack the face of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee. After eleven rounds, Dundee really began to fight. He won the last four rounds, did his best work in the 15th. but when the bell rang two of the three judges...
...left August 26 on a canoe trip with food for two weeks and Franchot was expected home for the wedding of his sister last Saturday. When he failed to appear the Canadian government was notified but forest rangers in the Timagami Reserve have so far failed to locate the pair. Airplanes and all available help were being enlisted today in the continued search and friends, recalling the fact that Franchot had been into the reservation before, expressed hope that they would soon turn...
Monkey Dominance. Because the University of Wisconsin's A. H. Maslow was curious about dominance in primates, 15 pairs of monkeys, each pair of the same sex, were introduced to each other for the first time. In every case one of the two took instant command of the situation, reduced the other to submission. The bully got 97% of the food, started all but a negligible percentage of the fights, never cowered, seldom retreated. To this treatment the browbeaten monkey responded by passivity, cringing, flight, or female sex behavior, regardless of the sex of the pair...
British Agent (First National) shows a pair of international agents up to their customary tricks, of spying on each other while they fall in love. Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) goes to Moscow to prevent Russia from signing a separate peace with Germany. Elena (Kay Francis) is Lenin's secretary, detailed to steal from Stephen the papers that will justify his execution. That no execution occurs will surprise few cinemaddicts...