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...steam-up, he opened sealed orders. The trip was the road's first "mystery excursion." For $2 the passengers were taken to a secret destination, allowed to golf on a good course, boat, bathe and fish, dance in the evening, eat chicken dinners. The road hopes to make pin-money by such trips, compete with automobiles...
...espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw. London tailors called the boater escapade last week the worst sartorial atrocity committed by H. R. H. since last month, when he turned up in a sleek cutaway coat and rough tweed trousers to pin medals on some London policemen...
...last week. After the second round he was tied for the lead with 69,76-145. After his third round 74, he was a stroke ahead of the field. Coming to the 18th green on his last round, his long iron shot stopped five feet from the pin. Extraordinarily deliberate, Perkins examined the putt carefully through his steel spectacles. Then he sank it for a birdie 3, a total of 289. It was five strokes better than Bobby Jones had guessed would win the tournament. Still deliberate, Perkins extracted the ball from the cup, gave it to his caddy, entered...
...Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Croix de Guerre with Palm; he was made a member of the Legion of Honor, cited for valor. He was called "the ideal army chaplain and the ideal parish priest" by Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Father Duffy: "If anybody sticks a pin into me, he'll find that I'm very American, very Irish and very Catholic, but if he'll leave me alone. I'm just plain human." Died. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins. 63, international lawyer of Washington, D. C.; in Washington. He and his father, Thomas...
...deep into the metal does a gas go, skin-deep or throughout? Dr. Abraham Lincoln Marshall proved?with special heating, evacuating and analyzing devices ?that gas thoroughly permeates metal. From a piece of molybdenum he extracted a speck of gas one-eighth the volume of a common pin, one 100-millionth of an ounce. Dr. Marshall found it a mixture of 43% carbon monoxide, 57% nitrogen...