A New Golf Angle for Standings Across Tournaments
A proposal to create a national standings system for golf by selecting top events and tallying total strokes and points for players. The idea, tested on the West Coast, urges a recurring ranking with rewards and a public following linking tournaments from the National Open to a summer series.
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West Coast
Ast Recah
Red Dudley
Harry Cooper
Hogan
Snead
Wood
Freddie Corcoran
Craig Wood
Sarazen
Nelson
P G.A
Farm Roots Shape Baseball Stars Of The American League
The American league service bureau lists many pitchers and players who grew up on farms or rural settings, including Elden Auker Vern Kennedy Bob Harris Muncrief and Ted Lyons. It notes Lefty Gomez Red Ruffing and others rose from agrarian beginnings, while Del Baker is the lone manager with a rural birth. Also mentions Hawaii asking for 1942 swim championships and helmet orders for military uses.
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New York Yankees
American League Service Bureau
Hiram
Elden Auker
Vern Kennedy
Bob Harris
Muncrief
St. Louis
Thornton Lee
Ted Lyons
Chicago
Bob Feller
Clint Browt
Harder
Bill Zuber
Cleveland
Lefty Gomez
Ernie Bonham
Red Ruffing
Tey Donalder
New York
Ken Chase
Washington
John Vern Kennedy Babich
Philadelphia
Early and Evans
John Peacock
Boston
Rollie Hemsley
Turner
Jimmy Foxx
Hal Trosky
Davis
Harland Grift
St.Louis
Charlie Keller
Yankees
Lou Finney
Tait Wright
Beau Bell
Buddie Lewis
Sam West
del Baker
Sherwood
Ore
League
Service Bureau
Army Weathermen Train At New York University
Thirty college graduates study meteorology at NYU under the defense program to learn weather forecasting for military use. The training includes operating a weather station to provide vital forecasts for armed forces and strategic planning.
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Uncle Sam
Department of Meteorology
New York University
Gas Saving Slogans and Civic Jabs
A collage of gas crisis humor and citizen remarks. Jokes about late notices, slow watches, and a horse and buggy era mix with satire on fuel use. Harold Ickes stickers face critique while proposed slogans push sharper patriotism.
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Harold Ickes
Uncle Sam
America
Hitler
Seven Quiz Questions on History and Government
A list of eight trivia prompts covering US twin birth frequency the meaning of Quo Vadis Plimsoll lines revenue bills committee all bills for raising revenue go to, an odd non ruminant among buffalo kangaroo camel, a gammadion symbol, king of France during the revolution, number of American women in Britain's house of commons, and which profession would most value an artifact a magician archeologist or a machinist.
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United States
House of Representatives
France
Britain
House of Commons
Quiz Glimpses Historical Figures and Facts
A quiz lists items including a ruminant kangaroo chewing cud, a cryptic Nazi reference, Louis XVI, two women sharing a seat on March 19 1941 Lady Astor and Beatrice Clough Rathbone, and an archeologist linked to Aboriginal art.
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Soame Ags
U Lady Astor
Beatrice Clough Rathbone
Whither Goest Thou on a Ship and Load Line Marks
Answers One in 87 births referenced in relation to shipboard topics. Mentions load line marks and Ways and Means committee details.
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Ways and Means Committee
Gems and Quotes About Happiness From Classic Voices
A collage of lines from Jerrold Stevenson Markham and Holmes on happiness, play, memory, and youth. The collection urges inner joy, moral conduct, and optimistic aging through familiar proverbs and literary reflections.
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Douglas Jerrold
Robert Louis Stevenson
Edwin Markham
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Gomex
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Hawaii
A.A.U
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Braves
Army
Tank Corps
Gene Thompson
Cincinnati Red
Army Weathermen
John Quigley
Highboy
A. Spilhaus
L Phillips
Wilbur Wrenn
Arthur Bott
Minnie Wray
John J. Applegate
Nell
Joe
Johnson
Wallace Wright
Luther
Gas Shack
Wottaman
Barnett
Puggy
Navy
Ima Dodo
Churchill
Mr. Roosevelt
Merrill Chilcote
United States Golf Association
Caretery
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ria
Soft Lake
TNO
Trio Hee
Theodore Roosevelt
Salt Lake City
Neny
West
J. H. Waters
J. Holman Waters
W. Ross Sutton
Mirror Room
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