Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caddy who won the 1916 U.S. Open and Amateur championships. Years ago Evans began cashing in on his fairway fame with a series of phonograph records called "Chick Evans' Golf Secrets," and devoting the proceeds to helping out deserving caddies. Since 1930, 55 bag-toters, chosen on their records as caddies and students, have received free tuition at Northwestern University on Chick Evans Scholarships. No. 56 is wiry, 17-year-old Daniel Schneider. At high school he played: 1) a cornet; 2) a leading part in scholastic forums and debates; 3) below-90 golf. He enrolls at Northwestern this...
...born in Washington, D.C., educated at Munich and Harvard. He is now headmaster of the Columbus (Ohio) School for Girls. For 20 years, under his own and two pen names (John Esteven, Peter Loring), he has been writing mysteries, romances, biographies. Captain from Castile is his first big success. Chosen by the Literary Guild for January, it has also been snapped up by 20th Century...
...Hitler could be Man of 1938, but despite Hitler's victories Winston Churchill proved himself Man of 1940. Franklin Roosevelt was chosen for the third time in 1941, after Pearl Harbor made him America's sixth wartime president. And maybe you'll remember that General George C. Marshall held the place last year, as the man who, more than anyone else, could be said to have "armed the Republic...
General Marshall had chosen Eisenhower for his brains, imagination and diplomacy when the Chief of Staff sent him first to Britain, then to Africa in 1942. In addition to his natural ability to get along with people, Eisenhower acquired the knack of hitting it off with other nationals, notably the British. In Africa his command structure was a complex but smooth-working mesh of U.S. and British officers, and he carried the same formula back to England when he was chosen to head the invasion. Of the six men on his Supreme Command, four were British...
...arrival in Chungking last November with a corps of American steel and alcohol experts, Don Nelson found the Generalissimo impatiently waiting. Chiang had already begun organization of a War Production Board, had chosen as its boss honest, able Dr. Wong Wen-hao, renowned geologist and Minister of Economic Affairs. What he wanted the Americans to do was to buckle down at once to the details of the organization job. Their first chore: drafting an organic law for the Chinese...