Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Fox, cinemagnate, was on his way to play golf last month when his automobile smashed up, injuring him, killing his chauffeur (TIME, July 29). Last week, fully recovered, Film-man Fox played his first game of golf since emerging from the hospital. At the 17th hole, 150 yards across water, he cocked his eye, waggled his club, swung with precision and, for the third time in his career, holed his tee shot. Said he, modest: "Of course, I know that all three have been a matter of luck...
...critically. Irritated, national contenders challenged him to play. He beat them. Two years later he won the U. S. Championship. Two years ago he was on a team which defeated English invaders. Lacking competition in Toledo, he plays by mail with far-off experts. Once he had a postal game with an Australian which lasted more than a year, ended in a draw...
...building projects have for centuries appealed to the imagination of French rulers. Nowadays, however, the world's great monuments of architecture are reared in the U. S. It was inevitable that sooner or later the French would be driven by their imagination to take a hand in the game. Last week it happened. The French Government, in combination with Builder Irwin S. Chanin and Banker Simon William Straus, dramatically revealed a $50,000,000 Gallic dream...
Died. Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, 83, of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass., longtime art editor for Houghton Mifflin Co. (book publishers); in Manhattan. Mr. Scudder was an original member of the Oneida Football Club, first in the U. S., which played its first game on Boston Common in 1862* and was never beaten, never scored upon...
...until 1875 was there a Harvard-Yale football game...