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...opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated Charley Yates the first day; 27-year-old Dick Chapman, who had competed in five previous U. S. Amateurs but had never before reached the first round of match play; and 23-year-old Willie Turnesa, amateur baby brother of the six famed professional Turnesas...
...London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . . And so I've come to Carlsbad, and I sip the filthy water . . . Proprietary medicines-are they everything they oughter...
Three 3½-year-old female elephants enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...
...Bengal. The tempest of excitement this raised among Congressmen, only too eager to get on eating and dickering terms with their British masters, was stilled by Saint Gandhi in his own way. He announced that he no longer pays his Congress dues, is no longer a Congressman, thus can sip boiled milk and crack walnuts with whomever he likes...
...been decided the facial postures of Drenchers Litvinoff and Eden (TIME, Nov. 22, p. 21) are not due to any political, social, or cultural affiliations of either, but rather to the stage of tea drinking reached by each. It would seem that "Red Litvinoff" is on his first cautious sip from a full cup of tea while "Tory Eden" is draining the dregs. Let TIME'S Editor try and finish a cup of tea without putting his nose into...