Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Specifications: age, 48; height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 155; hair, black & thinning; sport, golf (usual score: 95-100): wife; son, 17; daughters, 15, 13. Home, Flushing...
...Little Poison" is Paul Runyan, who learned his golf in Hot Springs, Ark., teaches it at White Plains's Metropolis Club and never ceases to concentrate on it in tournament play. Ever since 1934, when he defeated his onetime boss, slugging Craig Wood, in the final of the P. G. A. championship and went on to become the No. 1 pro that year, Paul Runyan has made a specialty of killing off golfing titans with his deadly potions of accuracy and control...
Headmaster Bonner got his big idea during the War when, at high-pressure Plattsburg Officers Training Camp, he was polished as an officer in three months, simply by concentration. But militaristic regimentation is taboo at Redding Ridge. Boys are encouraged to swim, play tennis and golf, sports which they will enjoy later in life. (Mr. Bonner wryly admits he would have had trouble developing a football team with five boys...
...Husky, 40-year-old Reginald A. Whitcombe, youngest of Britain's three famed Whitcombe brothers who during the past 15 years have won almost every major golfing prize in the Empire: the British Open golf championship; defeating a predominantly British field; with a 72-hole score of 295, two strokes better than second-place Jim Adams of Scotland and three strokes better than the favorite, Defending Champion Henry Cotton, considered by many the world's No. 1 professional golfer; at Sandwich. To Brother Reggie went the distinction of being the first of the Whitcombes to win the Open...
Fortnight ago luscious Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, said to be at odds with her longtime companion, Charlie Chaplin, turned up to visit him at Pebble Beach, Calif., where the grey-haired little comedian has his summer house. One day last week Miss Goddard went out to play golf at the Cyprus Point Club. There she registered as "Mrs. Charlie Chaplin." While Hollywood wondered whether this at last was tacit admission of what Holly wood had long tacitly taken to be fact-that Paulette Goddard is and has been for several years Charlie Chaplin's third wife*-the talkative cinemactor once...