Daring Ball Speeds Across Sports From Tennis To Golf
A survey of fast balls across sports notes tennis smashes near 126 to 130 mph with Tilden rumored at 150 mph. Golf speeds reach 190 mph with Sarazen’s 115 mph club head and 432 mph ball, while billiards top speed records around 22 mph.
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William T
Big Bill
Harold Larwood
Nottinghamshire
England
Don Bradman
Gene Sarazen
United States
Hiis
Alex Endie
Endie
London
Even Machines Make Mistakes Editorial Cites Cereal Box Shortfall
A reader notes a cereal box half filled on first opening, sparking talk of price via packaging. A grocer explains occasional underfill from a filling machine, while elsewhere a light item shows chance not policy. The piece closes with a blunt analogy about blotters soaking up and reversing facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Christian Science Monitor
In Defense Of A Much-Slandered Man
Tain Macleod defends Neville Chamberlain in a new biography, arguing his Munich policy was brave and measured. The book outlines Chamberlain’s life from Birmingham to national service, praising his devout peace aims and rearmament efforts under pressure.
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Munich
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Tain Macleod
House of Commons
Health
Labor
Harold Macmillan
Tain
Macleod
Hitler
Europe
Winston Churchill
Birmingham
Joseph Chamberlain
Neville
Austen
Anne Cole
Adolf Hitler
House
Mountain Garden With Little Water
Mariano and the narrator trek uphill in La Colilla to a tiny vegetable patch fed by a mountain spring. Drought year left little water and poor harvests of beans and small potatoes. They amid granite homes and fading sunset, then descend toward Avila as lights shimmer in the distance.
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Mariano
la Colilla
Graderros Mountains
Avila
la Colille
Weighing Chamberlain's Peace Hopes Against Harsh Reality
The excerpt recalls Neville Chamberlain facing a world crisis and betrayed by events and a wicked man. It highlights his noble aims for peace and the toil and risk he undertook despite public disdain and pressure from Newsweek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commons
Neville Chamberlain
Newsweek
A. Spanish Summer excerpt and reader questions
A tranquil scene from Joseph Nettis's A. Spanish Summer describes a burro’s bray. A reader asks for the surest way to fall asleep and mentions turning off the alarm.
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Joseph Nettis
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