Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time in history, a Dominion man carried off the U. S. amateur title. Elation in Canadian locker rooms last week was heightened another degree. For the first time since 1926 the Canadian women's title came home from the U. S. Miss Margery Kirkham of Montreal's Forest Hills club was the heroine, at Kanawaki. Quebec. By 4 & 2 she turned back the last U. S. player, Bernice Wall of Oshkosh. Wis.. in the semifinals, then went on to whip Mrs. Charles Eddis of Toronto in the final. 3 & 2. Square-jawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood...
Director Josef von Sternberg wrote the story, quit Paramount and took Miss Dietrich with him when the story was rewritten, later returned to direct her in it. Von Sternberg, who has repeatedly denied being born Joe Stern in Brooklyn, opens with a sylvan swimming scene in Germany's Black Forest (300 miles from Berlin) where U. S. hikers surprise Berlin actresses off for the afternoon. One hiker (Herbert Marshall) marries Marlene Dietrich, takes her to the U. S. They have a child. Marshall contracts radium poisoning in his scientific research. To send him to a Dresden doctor, Marlene returns...
Most big general magazines published under the Maple Leaf are close family affairs. No exception is National Home Monthly. It was founded by an old newspaperman of Mount Forest, Ont. named Henry H. S. Stovel. In 1867 he began a weekly newspaper called The Confederate, the name springing not from the recently concluded U. S. Civil War but from Canada's provincial confederation which occurred that year. Eighteen years later Publisher Stovel moved with his four sons, all printers, to Winnipeg. Fourteen years later Western Home Monthly came to life. Father Stovel and sons Harry, John and Augustus died...
...preferred was straight-grained willow. With such a bat a scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England's Forest Products Research Laboratories that their bat crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study...
...John Burke, champion of Ireland who signs his first name "Sean," Ouimet's putting helped his partner win four of the first five holes. The match was over at the 30th, with Ouimet & Dunlap 7 up. Captain Thomas Arthur ("Tony") Torrance of the British team and John De Forest, British Amateur champion, did very little better. They lost to Gus Moreland (in vited to join the U. S. team while he was winning the Western Amateur last fort night) and huge Charlie Seaver (Stanford footballer, who plays golf because his father wants him to) on the 31st green. Jess Sweetser...