Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Shute was the defending P. G. A. champion, his match with Open Champion Manero might have been the climax of the tournament. It ended on the 34th green when Manero, who had never been less than i down since the third, just failed to hole a 20-yd. chip shot he needed to keep the match alive. The match was not the climax of the tournament because the final the following day, between Shute and McSpaden, who had nosed out Laffoon, turned out to be as bitterly contested as any engagement in the P. G. A.'s earnest...
Playing onetime Champion Cyril Tolley in the second round, 59-year-old Michael Scott, who won the tournament in 1933, came to the 17th green thinking he was 2 down, picked up his ball instead of putting for a half, and said, "thanks, pleasant match." Officials pointed out that he had been only i down, ruled that he had lost by picking...
...friend Cinemactress Merle Oberon. Sweeny put out Wehrle in the round of eight and a Staffordshire miner named Charles Stowe in the semi-finals the same day. Next day a hard-fought 36-hole final against a 50-year-old Ulsterman named Lionel Munn ended on the 34th green when Sweeny sank a 20-ft. putt for match & title...
Pretty, buxom Sarah Gertrude Knott was working for the Drama League in St. Louis when she decided her real calling was to preserve U. S. folklore. Miss Knott got help from old George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard, North Carolina's Paul Green, the late Novelist Mary Austin and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. By 1934 she had interested enough volunteer talent to put on the first National Folk Festival in St. Louis. She arranged the second Festival in Chattanooga, last year's in Dallas. Envoys from colleges and towns, winners of State Festivals were welcomed. Some sponsor always paid...
...Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whose practice has been to sit ruminating while the committee's lawyers ran the Van Sweringen show. But a time has come in almost each day's testimony when Senator Truman has felt impelled to bring his palms down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week he added: "Holding companies are as great an evil in the railroad field...