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Near Wilmot is the garnet mine of Harvardman Norman Davenport, whence Henry Ford and General Electric Co. get the garnet used in fine abrasion, glass-polishing...
However, the Harvard Bureau does not limit its aid to cases of general destitution in Cambridge. Not all students realize that this service is also at their disposal. Such legal difficulties as rent contracts, buying and selling, and automobile accidents can most conveniently be handled by applying to Garnet Hall adjacent to the Square. A Bureau such as this is another indication of the place of the University in modern life as compared to a past conception of the University as an academic retreat from life...
...that city through Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank, an oldtime Nashville friend. He is also interested in Alligator Co., St. Louis. He has been identified with many a Southern hotel, including the Kentucky in Louisville, the Andrew Jackson in Nashville, and Lookout Mountain Hotel, Chattanooga, where Garnet Carter conceived Tom Thumb Golf (TIME, July 14). Banks, garages and textiles likewise are included in his interests. So great is his faith in Banking-on-the-South that in 1928 he sponsored Shares in the South, Inc., an investment trust to specialize in Southern securities with the provision that...
Historic is Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, with one foot in Tennessee and one in Georgia. Here the Union soldiers tumbled the greycoats into retreat in the Battle Above the Clouds; here, last year, shrewd Garnet Carter, owner of Fairyland Club, built the first Tom Thumb golf course, complicating an ordinary 18-hole putting course with ingenious hazards. Last week to Fairyland went putters from many corners of the U. S. to roll balls through hollows, to carom them from banks, down tunnels, over dishpan water hazards and around basket-size sand-traps in the first national Tom Thumb championship...
...Garnet Carter has part interest in patent rights on the use of cottonseed hulls or other "comminuted flocculent vegetable material" as putting greens (TIME, July 14; Aug. n). His patents on hollow-log and other hazards are still pending. A great rival-Miniature Golf Courses of America Inc.-had sprung up to compete with his Tom Thumb Golf. Wisely they compromised on the market: to Miniature Golf, the indoor courses; to Tom Thumb the open spaces. Latest Department of Commerce figures for this fast-growing U. S. business put the total investment at $325,000,000 for 30,000 courses...