Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True to a custom in Washington (a supposed sop to pacifistic civilian taxpayers), Gene Reybold sat down at his desk in shirt sleeves and mufti, a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles camouflaging his military nose. Like most Army men out of uniform, he managed to look more like a country doctor than like the top-flight soldier...
Last week, before 7,000 eyewitnesses, the prestige of U. S. sport pickers was put to a test. On Detroit's dog-tiring, tricky Oakland Hills course, Gene Sarazen's "leftouts" teed up against Walter Hagen's "ins" in a two-day challenge match under Ryder Cup rules (four two-ball foursomes, eight singles matches...
...better job. Last year, when the Professional Golfers Association selected ten pros to represent the U. S. in Novem ber's biennial Ryder Cup matches with Great Britain, the pickers were greeted not only with the customary chipped beefing but with a sizzling roast by fiery little Gene Sarazen - omitted from the team for the first time since...
...Irving Berlin wrote this song for Kate Smith in 1938. Last week he assigned its royalties-$43,646 to date -to patriotic causes to be selected by Gene Tunney, Herbert Bayard Swope, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. As a starter they picked the Boy and Girl Scouts...
Seeking Divorce. Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr, former wife of Austrian Munitions Manufacturer Fritz Mandl; and Gene Markey, balding cinemawriter; after a marriage of 16 months; in Hollywood. After their separation Writer Markey went home to his father...