Word: armour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Elsa Armour, daughter of Chicago Packer Andrew Watson Armour; and Washington Irving Osborne Jr., Chicago socialite; in Chicago...
...have learned to listen to the flow of anecdotes and discourses on education in which he often indulges at meetings before settling down to the business in hand. His colleagues know that he invariably gets down to business in the end, unhurried, efficient, wise. His other directorates have included Armour & Co., Chicago, Great Western, Chicago Daily News, Container Corp., Continental Illinois Bank & Trust (where he also sits with the executive committee), and a few months ago United States Steel Corp. was added to the list (TIME, July...
Billy Burke and George Von Elm. tired after their play-off for the U. S. Open, were there to watch. Most closely they watched one-eyed Tommy Armour. British Open Champion, who was defending his next-best title; Walter Hagen. who recently recovered his putting touch and promised his friends to win at least one important championship this year; Percy Alliss, a plump British professional attached to a club at Wannsee, near Berlin, where Professor Albert Einstein goes sail-boating; elegantly skinny Johnny Farrell; Wiffy Cox, the only pro who played the new U. S. "big ball" (and shot...
...first round, Alliss shot a 67, five under par; Hagen, Cox and Armour were a stroke behind, Farrell two strokes. Hagen got another 68 the next day. Farrell was still a stroke behind him and Alliss, with a 71 for his second round, was a stroke behind Farrell. Cox, disgusted by a 39, changed to the smaller, heavier old ball, shot a 35 on the second nine. It was a cool, grey day. Henry Cotton, generally considered most formidable of the British Ryder Cup players, strapped two umbrellas to his bag in case of rain...
...First one-eyed pilot to fly the Atlantic, Pilot Post was not the first to try. Before him went Francis Coli, lost in 1927 with Charles Nungesser; and Walter G. Hinchliffe, lost with the Hon. Elsie Mackay in 1928. Other famed uni-oculars: Golfer Tommy Armour, Reporter Floyd Gibbons, Gatecrasher "One-Eye" Connelly, Admiral Lord Nelson, Reformer William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, "Big Bill" Heywood, Fisticuffer Harry Greb...