Word: gar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow all the water back over the hull ... of a bicycle manufacturer starting to build high wheeled bicycles . . . of Gar Wood if he put his motors out in the water...
...Miami Beach. Last fortnight, when Garfield Arthur ("Gar"') Wood began his winter occupation of trying to better Kaye Don's speedboat record of 110.223 m.p.h. he failed by a couple of watch ticks. Last week he lowered the hull of his Miss America IX to make her cut through ripples instead of bounce over them, then claimed he had beaten the world's record by more than the requisite .5 m.p.h.† He covered the Indian Creek course of one nautical mile (6.080 ft.) southward in 36.87 sec., northward in 37.35 sec. and computed his average speed...
...long, rakish craft skimmed the wavelets of Indian Creek, Fla. one day last week, faster than a boat had ever traveled before, but a watch-tick too slow, officially, to break the world's record. The boat was Miss America IX; her pilot, Garfield ("Gar") Wood; her time, 96.20 nautical m. p. h. Because he had failed to exceed Kaye Don's time by a full 5 m. p. h. Gar Wood could not claim a record...
...standards other than watch-ticks "Gar" Wood's race was a victory. It provided columns and columns of newspaper publicity under the dateline of Miami Beach, Fla., an accomplishment which caused double satisfaction to a short, round-faced, exceedingly affable young man named Stephen Jerome Hannagan. Hannagan is Wood's press agent, Miami Beach's press agent. Geographically, his time is divided among Miami Beach, Montauk Point, L. I. and the Indianapolis Speedway, whither he dashed last fortnight to prepare publicity for the annual automobile races to be held there in May. Professionally his prime allegiance goes...
With little time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...