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...game that brings diverse eggheads together. Vivienne and Charles play it remarkably alike. Last week, in their second playoff at $1,500 a point, both headed straightaway for the harder, highpoint questions, got all the answers and carried the deadlock to $2,000 a point. On a question about the six Vice Presidents of the U.S. who went on to be elected to the presidency, both minds clicked along the same track of thought, got three chronologically (Adams. Jefferson, Van Buren), jumped to the latest-Harry Truman-then to Coolidge and then agonized for a while before naming Teddy Roosevelt...
...asked the general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack at the demanding layout of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and then, for the pairs with the 40 best 36-hole scores, a playoff at Pebble Beach. Evening: a round of the parties that brightened every clubhouse and properly stocked private home from Carmel to Cannery...
...Just as they did 22 years ago when freezing weather slicked the field for the championship playoff with the Chicago Bears, the New York Giants traded their cleated football shoes for rubber-soled sneakers. And just as they did in 1934, the Giants ran off with the National Football League title. The bruising New York defense kept the Bears at bay; on offense just about every Giant was a star. Scoring on runs, passes, field goals and a blocked kick, the Giants...
George Kraft '58 presided as general chairman of the tournament. Judges for the playoff debate for second place were Professor F.C. Packard, Jr. and Ensign Thomas B. Bardos...
...ball) and pushed his way to second. Standing on the bag, he called to the head umpire-the same Hank O'Day. This time O'Day surprisingly called Merkle out, ruled the game a tie. The Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance Cubs went on to win the playoff and the pennant-and took the World Series from Hughie Jennings' Detroit Tigers (Ty Cobb & Co.) four games...