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Over the hump with this burst, the part-time umbrella salesman could not be stopped. He calmly outshot ex-Yankee Ballplayer Sam Byrd in the final to pocket the P.G.A.'s first prize, $5,000 in war bonds, and stretch his winning string to a dizzy nine straight tourneys. His victory-starved rivals' future looked darker than ever. Cracked Mike Turnesa: "I was 7 under par. . . . I don't see how anyone can beat...
Parodies of TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but we prefer nouns that make adjectives unnecessary...
...Kweiyang and thence to field headquarters, and you've come only half the way. There American Brigadier General Frederick Boye and Chinese General Tang En Po jointly deploy and dispose of Chinese and American personnel in combat. Their remote control runs another 400 miles to the quiet, fluid string of foxholes that is the front, inhabited by hungry Chinese infantrymen and grimy, filthy Americans...
...foul pageant of the Muscovite demimonde." She endured with patience Menshikov's orgiastic embraces and downed her vodka with his roistering friends, glass for glass, without losing a shred of dignity. She could sit placidly through wild banquets where the big joke of the evening might be a string of boiled mice slyly hidden in the cabbage soup, a trick that made some of the revelers vomit on the floor-"which capped the joke though it made things slightly unsanitary for the guests who would later fall on the floor...
...string of washing hung on the porch of the Smalls' shingled cottage. Small's frail mother came out as the coupe drew up in the front yard. With her was Small's sister, Irene. "Oh, you're back," said Small's mother. He grinned and led the way into the kitchen, lugging his barracks bag. "We thought you'd be coming home," said the mother. "We heard on the radio that the 86th was back. Your father said for you to be sure to come down to the factory...