Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twittering around the first tee of suburban New York's Winged Foot Golf Club last week were flocks of women in high-heeled pumps. They did not recognize Francis Ouimet, Chick Evans, Johnny Goodman or five other onetime champions who teed off in the 44th annual U. S. Amateur golf tournament. They powdered their noses while Defending Champion Bud Ward, generally considered the best amateur in the U. S., split the fairway with his drive. The golfer they had gone to see was Crooner Bing Crosby, whose habitual air of mild surprise never fitted him better than when...
...modern carriages, a larger number of 75 mm. guns, a few more than a hundred aircraft. There were no automatic rifles in sight, nor a single anti-tank gun. They were not needed. There were no tanks. The President asked Major General Clifford Powell about the equipment of the 44th Division. The Major General replied : "It is pretty good, what there is of it. But we are using broomsticks for machine guns and rain pipes for mortars." The President laughed and said that everyone seemed to be in the same boat...
...Songs for Democracy (The Music Room, No. 133 West 44th St., Manhattan). Rousing collection of proletarian war songs in German, French, English, Spanish, written, rendered and recorded by members of the Eleventh International Brigade during the Spanish Civil...
...coming from behind with a breathtaking final-round 68. Ten years later, at Fresh Meadow, Sarazen won the National Open again-playing the last 18 holes in 66. Last week, on the eve of the 44th U. S. Open, held on Cleveland's dog-tiring, wind-tricky Canterbury links, 38-year Oldster Sarazen, preparing to tee off in his 21st Open, made another prediction; no golfer over 35 will ever win the Open...
...Annual Dinner is scheduled for 7:30 this evening. Three distinguished figures in President James Bryant Conant '14; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, and Mayor Florello H. La Guardia will address the assembled group at the Hotel Astor at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue...