Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golf, only three U. S. golfers were among the 240 who teed up their balls last week in the 74th British Open, world's No. 1 golf tournament. But when the field narrowed down to two, one of the finalists was an American: big Johnny Bulla, a Chicago pro who was playing in his first British tournament. After finishing his last round in 73 for a 72-hole total of 292, it looked as if an American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse and 5,000 Britons held their breath, Richard...
...after two years in Body-Builder Hoffman's gymnasium-lifting the bar bells he helped manufacture*-20-year-old Steve Stanko, standing 6 feet tall and weighing 220 Ibs., was recognized as the No. 1 strongman of the U. S. Competing in the national weight-lifting championships at Chicago, against the pick of some 1,000,000 U. S. residents who lift bar bells for exercise, Stanko made all the other contestants look like parlor performers...
...told Sonja Henie she could be another Garbo was an ebullient Irish-American, Dennis Russell Scanlan of St. Paul, who ran, and runs today, a prosperous surgical-instruments business in Sweden and Manhattan. In 1920 Scanlan had set Norway on its ear by staging an Oslo show for Chicago Skater Bobby McLean that grossed $76,000. The Henies and Mr. Scanlan saw something attractive in each other. In 1935 they put their heads together over Sonja. The Henie filmplaner were simple. Sonja was to go out in a blaze of amateur glory in the 1936 Olympics, then cash in before...
...Chicago's huge Palmer House one day last fortnight, 50 businessmen attending the annual convention of their trade association, opened the meeting by chanting in unison: WHERE'S THIS YEAR'S PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED? There was not a man present that could not reel off Peter Piper without a bobble, and older hands did not boggle Theophilus the thistle-sifter. But full as they were of percussive alliteration they were no mere funsters. They were members of the 46-year-old National Pickle Packers Association representing 85% of an industry which has done...
...mother to thank for his education. She and her free brood tramped 150 miles from Cuthbert to Atlanta, Ga. There he worked his way through Atlanta University (1876) and became first president of Georgia State Industrial College. He spent many a vacation taking short courses at Harvard, University of Chicago. Oxford, topped them off with a night banking course in the University of Pennsylvania-and so, after 30 years of academic work, became a banker...