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Golf tournaments quite often end with a dramatic situation like the one which occurred in the British Open at Carnoustie, Scotland, last week. Tommy Armour was waiting around the clubhouse with his long nose in a highball glass, wearing the sly expression which comes partly from the formation of his face, with its sloping forehead and weak chin, partly from the way his eyelid droops over his blind left eye. Out on the course, the man who seemed likely to beat him-Jose Jurado, a slight wiry professional from the Argentine-was playing his last round. Armour had finished with...
...studying in the University, the following are scheduled to come to the Graduate Schools next year: Charles Eliott Perkins Scholarship, L. A. T. Haak, of Granville, Ohio; Princeton Fellowship, H. C. Anderson, of Princeton, New Jersey; Buckley Fellowship, W. F. Fitzgerald, Jr. of Cambridge; Faculty Scholarships, R. W. Armour, of Pomona, California, and I. I. Richards, of Orona, Maine: two Rumrill Scholarships, W. C. Dunn, of Chapel Hill. North Carolina, and R. W. Wilkins, of Greensboro, North Carolina...
...California, oldtime railroad executive, president of Union Oil Associates, an organizer and onetime (1927-28) president of the American Petroleum Institute; of heart disease; in Los Angeles, Calif. Died. Bernard Albert Eckhart. 79, president of B. A. Eckhart Milling Co.. director of many a big corporation (Armour, Dodge Bros., Montgomery Ward, Erie Railroad), onetime (1924) assistant treasurer of the Republican National Committee; of heart disease; in Chicago. Onetime State Senator (1887-89), he was active in civic and State affairs, donor of Eckhart Science Hall at the University of Chicago...
Wistful inventors searched for money interest in the inquisitive eyes of exposition. If there were any over-the-counter sales of devices, they escaped attention. Nonetheless hope persisted of another Jonathan Ogden Armour passing by. The late Mr. Armour, as every inventor knows, liked to take fliers. One such was a process for "cracking" oil, worked out by Jesse and Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. When the Armour fortune faded, profits from that old gamble on Mr. Armour's part re-enriched his widow, enabled her again to live beautifully (FORTUNE, April...
...meeting the ghost alone. Hardly had Halsey, Stuart & Co. withdrawn than President Clarke called upon Fox's shareholders to elect six new directors. At the head of the list was Banker Wiggin, director of a myriad of mighty companies, also of less prosperous ones such as American Woolen, Armour & Co., International Agricultural Corp. Proposed to stand beside him were General Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois; Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National...