Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever since, broken and repaired a dozen times. (Snead estimates that he has won more than $5,000 with it in driving contests alone.) Snead and Fred Corcoran, then tournament manager for the P.G.A., became the Gold Dust twins. Together they pulled golf out of the doldrums. Corcoran, an entrepreneur with a leprechaun nose for pots of gold, succeeded in getting the annual tournament antes raised from $100,000 in 1936 to nearly $600,000 in 1947. The young Snead provided the public with a golfing hero like no one since the golden days of Jones and Hagen...
Married. The Rev. Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, 59, pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church, entrepreneur of canned sermons, radio preacher on 60 stations; and Mrs. Margaret N. Bell, 45; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...mend under Spain's warm spring sun, Hemingway, planning to head for his Cuban home next month, had a welcome assurance for his readers: "The doctors said the head injury did not affect the section of the brain I use to write with." In Hollywood, Entrepreneur Elliott Roosevelt announced that, after rummaging through some old personal papers and other documents, he and a collaborator had reconstructed an original screenplay missing since 1923, when its author sent it to Paramount studios. It was called I Have Just Begun to Fight, a stirring film biography of Admiral John Paul Jones...
...Financial Aid Center. Equipped with confidential statements and a broader view of student needs, the Center could make far better use of these funds. At present, the two bodies compete in the small grant field, where the Council's limited information opens Grants-in-Aid to the entrepreneur as well as the needy...
...first method is what one might call the "Old Guts" technique. In this case the entrepreneur must procure the insides of a pay telephone--the bells especially--and must carry this with him at all times. When it is necessary for him to make a phone call from a pay booth, he and his guts go in together. Dropping a nickel into the guts, the little bells clatter, and the bodied phone begins to work. Simple...