Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Roger Dearborn Lapham stepped down as mayor of San Francisco last January (his campaign pledge had been "One Term Only"), he let it be known that he intended to play plenty of golf (he used to shoot in the low 703) and take a three-month trip to Europe. But last week 64-year-old Roger Lapham decided to leave his clubs in the locker room and forswear the Grand Tour. The reason: Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman had tapped him for chief of ECA's $338 million China aid mission. It was one of the toughest jobs...
Although the Alumni will take time out for some barbershop quartet renditions and a few rounds of golf, the convention will take for its theme the problem of higher education in a free society. President Conant is scheduled to take a prominent role in the three days of discussion...
Patricia, a cheery, blue-eyed blonde, is a girl who likes to play the piano, sing mezzo-soprano, play golf and watch the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. She hopes to go to Milwaukee-Downer College. She doesn't date much ("I've concentrated on scholarship"). When Patricia got word that she had won, her mother was more excited than she was. "Golly, was she excited," says Patricia. "I suppose I won't get excited until tomorrow...
Handsome, gregarious George Stoddard Eccles, 48, little resembles his solemn brother. George dances indefatigably, frequently breaks 80 at golf, heads the Ogden (Utah) Livestock Show. Unlike Marriner, who did not go beyond high school, George went to the University of California and Columbia. After graduation, he became assistant cashier at the family's First National Bank of Ogden. As president of the bank, Marriner was his boss...
...took a hole-in-one by Line Kinnicutt and a four-foot putt on the eighteenth hole by Sam Seager to put the wraps on a 28-game winning streak that Princeton boasted up to last Friday. Coach Barclay's golf team sunk both to win their first game in the sectional playoffs for Northeastern Amateur Championships...