Wood urges simpler golf to aid players reaching Open peak
The National Open champion at Normandy Isle Miami Beach promotes a simpler game style to help a broad range of golfers from 75 to 120 plus, focusing on instruction through his Miami clinic to guide players from rough to fairways. He attributes his rise to intelligent study and now aims to help others with practical advice.
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Ess Wood
Footblond
Wood
Normandy Isle
Miami Beach
Methods of Simplifying Swing and Tour Realities in Golf
Craig argues for a squared club face and hands driven swing over hip motion, praising Byron Nelson. He notes rising tour costs, beating par by several strokes, improving putting with pendulum technique, and adapting gear as clubs evolve.
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Craig
Byron Nelson
Florida
California
Arizon
Texas
Louisiana
Joe DiMaggio Is 1941 American League MVP Favorite
The Baseball Writers Association of America named Joe DiMaggio the 1941 American League Most Valuable Player. DiMaggio batted .357 in 139 games, extended his 56 game hitting streak, and joined a lineage of Yankee greatness noting his value beyond stats.
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Joe DiMaggio
Baseball Writers Association of America
New York Yankees
Hank Greenberg
Detroit Tigers
Yankees
Joe
Edgar Smith
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland
al Smith
Jim Bagby
Bob Felier
Cleveland Indians
Boston
Ted Willams
Cecil
Travis
Washington
Williams
Baseball—Writers
Feller
DiMaggio
San Francisco Seals
New York
How to Deliver a Straight Bowling Ball
Lowell Jackson explains straight ball delivery with thumb aimed at headpin. Keep fingers relaxed, swing from the shoulder, avoid full effort, and roll along the alley to avoid a dead ball. Release near the right leg, follow through to direct the ball toward the pins. Sam Snead wins Argentina Open. Roy Hughes traded to Angels. Frank Filchock born in Crucible, Pa.
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Sam Snead
United States
Jimmy Demaret
Los Angeles Angels
Roy Hughes
Montreal
Frank Filchock
Washington Redskin
Crucible
Grindstone
Sisal Fiber Sees Historic Demand Driven by War
Sisal, the fiber from the Yucatan henequen plant, underpins American wrapping twine and wheat flour packaging. War boosts demand for rope and twine, elevating sisal to its greatest market height as wire and steel pressures rise.
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Yucatan
Santa Frees Modern Carriage From Snow in New York
An editor notes Santa Claus struggles with several inches of snow as a mechanized age slows his reindeer, forcing him to shovel the snow in front of a New York store. The aside wonders how he handles deeper North Pole snows.
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Santa
Santa Claus
New York
North Pole
Christmas customs differ across early American colonies
The article notes southern colonies like Georgia and Virginia kept English customs with feasting and worship, while New England viewed Christmas with Puritan restraint. middle colonies mixed traditions from England Germany Holland and Sweden, highlighting gatherings, seasonal feasts, and evolving nationwide observance.
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Atlantic Seaboard
England
Georgia
Carolina
Maryland
Virginia
New England
Old England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Germany
Holland
Sweden
America
Philadelphia
Saint Nicholas the Bishop of Myra Known for Piety
The article recounts Saint Nicholas of Myra, a fourth century bishop renowned for piety and grace. It notes his noble birth, charitable wealth, and his feast originally on December 6 shifting to Christmas Eve as church customs evolved.
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Sante-Claus
San Nicholas
Saint Nicholas
Nicholas
Myra
Lycia
Asia Minor
Christmas celebrated on December 25 in Christian tradition
The tradition traces Christmas to early practices in 98 AD. Pope Telesphorus ordered a solemn feast in 197 AD. St Cyril around 340 AD dated Christ's birth to December 25 and Julius I confirmed Rome's festival date, widespread across Christendom.
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Telesphorus
Christ
St. Cyril
Julius
Rome
Christendom
Extravagance in Marriage Warns Young Wives
Kathleen Norris warns that modern marriage tests restraint as extravagant shopping by wives creates debt. A letter from “Tired Tim” describes Budgets ignored, loans unpaid, and a diamond pawned to cover bills while Bert insists on finer meals and goods. Norris argues responsible money management preserves harmony and avoids costly strain on the family.
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Bert
Tim
Qorner
Tifm
Emily
You May Have To Pay If You Let Your Husband Worry
Advice warns wives that spending on beauty, bridge prizes, and clothes beyond the budget risks marital harmony. It stresses that a beauty or shopping bill beyond what a husband earns leads to displeasure and possible heartbreak and tears over time.
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Tim
Bert
Honest
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Ben Hogan
Ben
Robert McShane
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Lowell Jackson
Jackson
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New Orleans
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Grace
Kathleen Norris
Bell Syndicate
WIU
By Kathleen Norris
Serenity
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