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...tenth day, a powerful Swede, Adolph ("The Machine") Carlson, strode in, bowled his eight consecutive games. He always took three small steps, kept his eye on the head pin (he claims watching a spot on the alley is amateur stuff), threw a slow, curving ball. The Swede's score mounted, took the lead. Then Carlson sweated it out until the last ball rumbled down the alleys this week...
...charged - but never proved in court - that Bonfils took $250,000 from Oilman Harry F. Sinclair to keep quiet about the Teapot Dome scandal, but such hush money would have been mere pin money to him. Before he died in 1933 (nine years after Tammen's death), he boasted that his enterprises, which ranged from mining schemes to a burlesque house, had brought him $60 million...
Political Potpourri? Other repercussions of Commander Stelle's blast gave him good cause to regret that he had ever pulled the pin. General Ike Eisenhower promptly pledged Bradley his support "anywhere . . . anytime." Other veterans' organizations rushed to Bradley's defense. Said the hustling, growing American Veterans of World War II (Amvets): "General Bradley has not been playing politics. . . . Before Bradley the VA was an American Legion political potpourri...
...only people who like to write [are] the people who write terribly." Scanning his first week's effort, some readers wondered if he was beginning to like his work. F.P.A. is unworried: if the three-month syndicate trial doesn't pan out, he still makes pool-table pin money on radio's Information Please (around $500 a week...
...Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...