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...been famed Bill Mehlhorn's 271 in the 1929 El Paso Open. Last week Mehlhorn's astounding record, which all the best professionals in the world have since failed to equal was convincingly shattered by an unknown, 22-year-old Battle Creek playground supervisor named Melvin ("Chick") Harbert. On the Arbor Hills Country Club course at Jackson, Mich. Golfer Harbert won the Michigan Open Championship with a four-round total of 268, 18 strokes better than his nearest competitor and 20 better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Low, Long & Little | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...scoring at golf depends as much on the course as on the player. Arbor Hills is a 6,700-yd. course with five par 5 holes. Golfer Harbert's 268 (31-32-32-32-33-34-36-38) might have been better if reporters had not mistakenly told him while he was playing his last round that Mehlhorn's record was 266. Twenty-three strokes under par when he got his 24th birdie of the tournament at the 5th hole. Golfer Harbert weakened under the pressure of trying to break the record, took three over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Low, Long & Little | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Battle Creek golf professional who started to teach him the game when he was 3, Golfer Harbert is an amateur who uses a baseball grip and had never until last week bettered the 67 he made in the Michigan Open three years ago. Said he: "After I started with three birdies in a row in mv first round, I knew I was on my game and I just kept going. . . . On the final round, I was so tired I could hardly lift my clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Low, Long & Little | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Harbert G. Pell '05, chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, will speak this evning at 7.30 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union. Although the meeting has been organized by the University Democratic Club. It will be open to all members of the University who are interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATS TO HEAR PELL | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...mummified body of John Wilkes Booth," assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is advertised in a professional theatrical publication as being " for lease." The man who wants to let it is named Bates, and his address is No. 1234 Harbert Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. Startled by the threatened conflict between the Producing Managers' Association and Equity on the " closed shop" controversy, and fearing that should the clash come next fall, no matter what the result, the playwrights would be the grist between the theatrical millstones, the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America is trying to reconcile little brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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