Word: bauer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water with searchlights. A cold front came out of the west bringing a sharp, high wind with it. At daybreak a B-17 bomber, Air National Guard planes, two Navy PBYs and private planes joined the hunt for the adventurers. At 7 a.m., the B-17 spotted Dickie Bauer's raft 25 miles from Euclid, near Fairport Harbor. The bomber lost it in the morning haze and tumbling waves, but 2½ hours later spotted it again...
...august United States Golf Association had been rumbling for several weeks about the amateur status of its top feminine gate attractions, the photogenic Bauer sisters, Marlene, 16, and Alice, 22. Their barnstorming tour through Florida tournaments last winter had cost money. Where did the money come from? The U.S.G.A., which worries rather more about such matters than the corresponding guardians of college football or even lawn tennis, was about to put a discreet investigation of the Bauers' income into high gear. Last week the little Bauer girls put the investigation into reverse...
...just couldn't afford to remain amateurs," said their father, David Bauer, who seven years ago gave up his regular job as an Aberdeen, S. Dak. golf pro to give full time to his daughters. U.S.G.A. and financial pressure had forced him to make the decision before Marlene, his most promising pupil, had another chance at the women's amateur title (she was put out in the semifinals last fall). Marlene had been named Woman Athlete of the Year for 1949 in an Associated Press poll, and the girls had dominated the winter circuit, but the next meal...
Special low celebrity rates had been available at some of the resort hotels where the Bauer family stayed during tournaments, but the U.S.G.A. frowns on such arrangements. Alice and Marlene sold some of their amateur prizes (radios, blankets, jewelry). But that kind of money was not enough...
Last week's announcement by the Bauers was greeted with a breeze of offers for television, radio and movie appearances, a batch of bids by manufacturers of golf equipment and sportswear. Said canny, patient father Bauer, looking hopefully toward Easy Street: "I guess we timed it right . . . I figure the girls will make $50,000 this year...