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...sheltered his bald head, and sometimes he wore a broad-brimmed white hat. He joked with his audiences about his frequent campaigns for President, and he spoke to them of the general glories of the Florida climate. After the address, which lasted about one hour, people crowded up to shake hands. Then Gilda Gray danced for the same real estate company." In the 1924 Democratic convention Bryan was a delegate from Florida (after the Hollywood, Fla., News had suggested that ''that would give Miami two or three million dollars' worth of printer's ink free...
Dormie Little Sirs: Your account of the final match of the American Amateur in TIME, Sept. 23, p.50, contains the following: "At the 10th, with Emery dormie. Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands." Rules of Golf of U. S. G. A. for 1935 under "Definitions" (21) reads as follows: "A side is said to be 'dormie' when it is as many holes up as there are holes remaining to be played." Little was dormie, not Emery...
...accomplished with the help of mercury in a long series of connected flasks, was so ingenious that Dr. Hertz's description of it was heartily clapped, and when he had finished Dr. Francis William Aston of Cambridge, who knows as much about isotopes as anyone, stepped up to shake his hand...
...took 4 to Little's 3. On the 15th, Little had a birdie 3 to Emery's 5. At the 16th, with Emery dormie, Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands...
...turn for a few days. The fear that First National, the "Baker Bank," would pare its $25 quarterly payment, sent First National stock tumbling $135 per share to $1,680. Not until Guaranty Trust, First National and other Manhattan banks declared their usual dividends did the bank-share market shake out of its gloom...