Word: bausch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society of the Genesee, composed of successful men & women who were born in or near New York's Genesee Valley, or achieved success in the neighborhood.* Once a year they meet & eat in Manhattan to salute a paragon. Meeting & eating last week they saluted President Edward Bausch of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. The event gave occasion for children with eyeglasses, students with microscopes, astronomers with telescopes, seafarers with binoculars, photographers with cameras, soldiers with range finders to learn what manner of man made their tools...
...Edward Bausch, 78, carries himself erect, still golfs and bowls. He founded Rochester's Germania Bowling Club in a brewer's garden, misses few of their meetings. His golf crony for 38 years has been Eastman's President William G. Stuber, 68, who says: "Ed Bausch is the finest type of man I have ever met. His interests are broad, including science, art, music, sports and charitable work...
...Edward Bausch built his first microscope the year (1868) he discovered that he was near-sighted and could not see his German school blackboard. His father, John Jacob Bausch (1830-1926), German immigrant, had founded the firm with $60 borrowed from the late Henry Lomb (1828-1908); had invented the nosepiece and hard rubber frames for spectacles. Young Edward proceeded to build microscopes with other Bausch & Lomb sons, has now produced more than...
Subject of this description last week was a solid young man with a pudgy serious face-James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, who received the Sullivan Medal which the Amateur Athletic Union annually awards to that athlete "who . . . has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." The voting, on a panel of ten U. S. athletes, was closer this year than when Bobby Jones won in 1930, not so close as when Barney Berlinger won by two votes over Helene Madison year ago. Second on the list, with 648 votes to Bausch's 687, was Pennsylvania...
Decathlon (100-metre sprint, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...