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...sunny New South Wales, as in Southern California, it is near-perfect tennis weather all year long. Oswald William Thomas Sidwell liked to play tennis as much as the next youngster, but figured that his real sporting future lay on a golf course. Then the war gave Billy Sidwell a chance to play tennis against G.I.s in Britain. He did so well that he decided to stick to the game. Last week all Australia had reason to be thankful...
...especially bright youngster passed seven school grades in ten months. Under her direction, a Boy Scout took a young buddy through three grades in three months. A 17-year-old "total reading disability" case was learning 73 new words a day within three months. She has also helped Phi Beta Kappa students who think they can't read fast enough (usual diagnosis: they are reading word by word, instead of by groups of words...
...with the chips down, cool Ben played Riviera as if he owned it. On "Hogan's Alley" that morning he posted a 68. He began the afternoon round with a birdie and finished it by sinking a six-footer-then flipped the ball casually to an admiring youngster and strode into the clubhouse. His score of 276 chopped five strokes off the U.S. Open record (Ralph Guldahl's 281 at Michigan's Oakland Hills Country Club eleven years ago). The runner-up: fancy-pants Jimmy Demaret, last year's top money winner...
Bouncing with energetic plans for her first trip to Paris, Mildred finds it hard to realize that she is somewhat of an old classic. She got a surprise last week when a youngster came up to her after her show and made a confession that many a popular new singer could make: "Mildred, I was brought...
...careful religious education, says Mrs. Chaplin, should help a child to express church doctrine in his own words. She quotes Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's account of a 14-year-old boy's answer to the question: "Why did Jesus have to die?" Replied the youngster...