Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studying with Henry Varnum Poor), Cartoonist Fitzpatrick spent his time last week in a happy whirl of chats and drinks, bought a painting by Max Weber. As a concession to Art, Fitzpatrick had hung two oil paintings among his cartoons: one a Daumier-brown picture of a group of card players, the other a dour, Picassoesque self-portrait (see cut). Of the latter he said sadly: "It was done in one of my blue periods, during a hangover...
Tough, tattooed Ford Personnel Boss Harry Bennett played saxophone in a Navy band in 1919 and has held a card for more than 15 years in A.F. of L. Musicians' Local No. 5 in Detroit. Last week, few days after he signed a historic armistice in Ford's fight with C.I.O. United Automobile Workers (TIME, April 21), Serviceman Bennett was visited by officers of the local, presented with a gold engraved card of life membership for his "untiring efforts in aiding scores of unemployed musicians by placing them on various jobs throughout the plant...
...plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns the clash between the wits of a female card shark and the charm of a clumsy ophiologist. Enough said...
...Roosevelt is an excellent poker player, and probably one of the principal explanations for this is his continual refusal to call a spade a spade. He has been just one card ahead of the public since last June, and with phenomenal success has directed opinion into planned channels. This is his right as President, but to employ the methods of unfounded alarm and misnomer, as he is now doing on the convoy issue, is both hypocritical and dishonest...
...Jones, 39 (winner of four U.S. Opens, five U.S. Amateurs, three British Opens, one British Amateur), finished 40th in a field of 47. Farmer Gene Sarazen, still going strong after 20 years of big-time golf, turned in 297 (for four rounds), ten strokes better than Jones's card but 17 behind Craig Wood's winning score. Walter Hagen and Francis Ouimet, both nearing 50 and too busy chasing business to bother chasing balls, withdrew after the first round. Ouimet had chalked up 82, Hagen 87, his highest score in nearly 30 years of professional play...