Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delegate Frederick E. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, whose "Minnesota Plan" has saved Minnesota farmers from themselves by teaching them the advantages of diversifying crops. President Roosevelt holds him in high 'regard for another, more intimate reason. Publisher Murphy, too, has overcome a great physical handicap. For 20 years he was humpbacked, straightened his spine by special exercises...
...Walter Beaver, electrician of Berwyn, Pa.: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 trapshooting event of the year; with 25 breaks in a row in the shoot-off, to 23 for 17-year-old Ned Lilly of Stanton, Mich., U. S. Junior Champion, after both had broken 98 out of 100; at Vandalia, Ohio. ¶All-star footballers representing the Midwest: a game against the Pacific Coast, coached by Howard Jones of the University of Southern California, with seven of his last year's team in the lineup; 13 to 7, largely because of a brilliant performance by Michigan...
...Negroid to Spanish. Least successful was her own composition, the "Gris-Gris Ceremonial," based on African rites of propagation. Happily it was the only one in which she joined with the Bahamans. Alone, Dancer Tamiris displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart of "hot" music, considered its presence with the Philharmonic-Symphony incongruous...
President-elect- Named president-elect of the American Dental Association was Dr. Frank Munroe Casto, 58, genial Cleveland teeth-straightening specialist. A 4-handicap golfer who averages 80 on his home course, has shot a 70 and made two holes-in-one, he has just finished eight years as president of the American Dental Golf Association. Dr. Casto will take his new office at next year's convention in St. Paul...
...Beatrice Gottlieb, 1-handicap golfer of Tuckahoe, N. Y.: an 18-hole match against the Prince of Wales; 5 & 4; at Coombe Hill, England. Vastly pleased and perturbed at being the first woman golfer to beat the Prince, Miss Gottlieb gave him one of her iron clubs which he fancied, got a box of balls and an autographed scorecard in return...