Word: armours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrews stands out from his predecessors in the BIR most notably because he is the first collector in history who is an experienced auditor and accountant. After high school in Richmond, he went to work as an office boy with Armour & Co., soon took up bookkeeping as an after-hours sideline. He passed the CPA examinations at 21, became the nation's youngest accredited accountant. After founding his own auditing firm, he later took on the additional job of Virginia State auditor. Virginia remembers him for uncovering 100 cases of corruption and fraud, sending a county clerk and five...
Since the Innerfield article appeared in the A.M.A. Journal, doctors and laymen all over the U.S. have been bombarding Chicago's Armour Laboratories with requests for the purified form of trypsin. The laymen, and most doctors, will get none. Actually, more than 40 research groups have already worked with trypsin, and none has had as much success as Dr. Innerfield in dissolving clots. Some agree that it cuts down inflammation, but so do other things which are safer. The research will go on, and some day the contradictions will be resolved. Meanwhile, the dawn of the age of enzymes...
...President, says Armour, is "at his golfing best" on the pitch shot: "the most valuable stroke-saving shot in the game" (head down, grip strong, feet close together). Says Armour: "It is probably the reason the President gets around the golf course in the respectable scores I read about." Ike is also a hot shot out of a bunker, with "practically perfect" technique (feet flat, head down, full follow-through). Says Armour: "Perhaps President Eisenhower has spent a lot of time in sand traps...
...fairway, however, Ike's swings and footwork have a few kinks-the result, Armour supposes, of a bad knee (an old football injury). Ike's main trouble in almost every picture: "His right knee, and consequently his right side, has 'locked' [i.e., stiffened] during the hit." Another of Ike's form faults which Ar mour calls "not permissible": his arms are sometimes bent on the follow-through, instead of going "straight out after the ball...
...Armour's fond hope, he says, that Ike will ask him in for an hour or so of coaching some day. Armour's promise: to take five strokes off Ike's score...