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...they shouted. "Whaddya thinkya doin'?" The car was circling madly, looking for an exit. As it jounced across fairways and putting greens, the golfers of Elyria swarmed toward it, yelling imprecations, picking up things to throw. Some threw rocks, some threw golf balls. Then they began throwing putters, irons, wooden clubs. The car's windshield was smashed. Its body clattered under the fire. Suddenly one of its occupants was pitched out and the automobile made back for the shrubbery, vanished up a lane while a desperate defender in the rear seat fired away with a revolver...
...fait! C'est fait!" cried Premier Herriot of France groggily. "It's done! It's done! It's done!" Espying a blonde German newspaper woman and a brunette French one, he hugged them both at once, then kissed each on both cheeks. Seasoned correspondents threw facts to the winds, wrote into the leads of their dispatches that "Europe's Reparations problems were settled finally and completely today" (United Press); "France and Germany have reached a complete agreement" (Associated Press) ; "Europe settled her Reparations dispute today" (Universal Service...
Naturally leading bankers and financiers, in both Germany and the U. S., threw their influence behind the Lausanne settlement, hoping for cancellation all round and a fresh start. Thus Dr. Hans Luther, President of the German Reichsbank, telegraphed congratulations to Chancellor von Papen, and former President of the Reichsbank Dr. Hjalmar Schacht telegraphed the single word, "Bravo...
Last week one of two facts was demonstrated: either Publisher Macfadden's estimate of the Manhattan mob mind was unprofitably low; or the gumchewer field had already been pre-empted by the other tabloids, the Mirror and the thumpingly successful Daily News. For last week Publisher Macfadden threw his Graphic into bankruptcy...
...appearance to wear glasses (which he probably needs), Hagen putted badly, drove well, made a left-handed recovery shot with a right-handed niblick, stayed in the running with 148 for the first two rounds. So did his partner, Wiffy Cox, who, when he failed to hole easy putts, threw away his ball and then his putter. Swart, cocky little Gene Sarazen, back from winning the British Open with a record 283, started badly on his onetime home course, but he was only a stroke back of Perkins, tied with Jurado and Leo Diegel, with 220 after his third round...