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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They brought him a cake with 21 candles. That and the French professional golf championship, the first European championship he has ever won, were Horton Smith's birthday presents. To Aubrey Boomer, the St. Cloud professional and Smith's nearest competitor, they brought a score card which Boomer, nervous, could scarcely sign. The figures scribbled on this card showed that Boomer had made a record-breaking 61 (33-28) for 18 holes on the St. Cloud golf course. The course is 6,507 yds. long. Boomer averaged 107 yds. per shot, including puts and approaches. For Gene Sarazen who came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Smith at St. Cloud | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer invented the catapult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

When a newsgatherer sent in his card to see Convict Sinclair during visiting hours, he got back a curt message: "Not at home to the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: No. 10,520 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...recent election of two "Morgan Men" to Radiator directorates. The Morgan House has lately been prominent in the management of Johns-Manville, having installed the late Theodore Merseles as president and succeeded him ? Uncle Charles A. Eaton represents New Jersey; Cousin William R. Eaton, lover of card-tricks, represents Colorado. with Lewis H. Brown, both formerly of Montgomery Ward. So strongly was the predicted merger looked upon as a Morgan maneuver that when, last week. President G. D. Crabbs of Cincinnati's Philip Carey Mfg. Co., showed himself in the Morgan Manhattan offices, the rumors promptly added the Carey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One Big Union | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Uncle Charles A. Eaton represents New Jersey:Cousin William R. Eaton, lover of card-tricks, represents Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One Big Union | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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