Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, were: Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie (runner-up to Goodman in last year's Amateur), Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati (Amateur champion in 1936), Freddy Haas of New Orleans (U. S. intercollegiate champion), Charley Kocsis of Detroit, Reynolds Smith of Dallas, Marvin Ward of Olympia, and Charley Yates of Atlanta. Some had played on Scottish links before and some had not. But all nine, including non-playing Captain Ouimet. tuned up for the international matches by competing-along with 200 others from all over the world-in the 52nd annual British Amateur championship, played last week on the Seaside links...
Well able to do a problem in Euclid is Fellow Schieffelin Claytor, of Washington, D. C., whose studies on "Locally Planar Continua" have been presented before the American Mathematical Society. Parsing a Greek verb is child's play to Fellow Frank M. Snowden Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., who won honors in Greek and Latin at Harvard, will study further at Harvard and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece...
Died. Willie Wimbish Daniel, Atlanta's famed and ageless Negro cateress; of pneumonia; in Atlanta. The daughter of slaves, she moved to Atlanta from Greenville, Ga. in the 1880s, became a supreme authority on Southern cooking, prepared banquets for many a visiting President, always turned up for a job in a shiny motorcar. She claimed she learned to cook from "a Yankee lady, a Mrs. Sherman...
...Atlanta, Ga., an unemployed night-watchman, James Worthy, depressed by having spent his last penny, piped the exhaust of his car in a window, turned on the engine, began inhaling fumes. Doubly depressed was the would-be-suicide when...
...crowd out these old favorites. Last month, as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends dropped far down on most lists, it looked as if the newer books were coming into their own, with C. Vann Woodward's Tom Watson reported as a best-seller in Atlanta, Holy Old Mackinaw a leader on the West Coast, Lewis Mumford's The Culture of Cities popular in the East, and Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics selling widely (3,000 in its first week) all over the country. Last month's published lists boiled down...