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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against Josephine Souchek, 17-year-old daughter of a Chicago truck farmer, Miss Didrikson had a narrow escape in the quarterfinals, managed to win on the 19th hole. Next day, while Helen Hicks was losing to Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who later won the tournament, Babe Didrikson was beaten by able Elaine Rosenthal Reinhardt of Winnetka, Ill., runner-up at 15 for the National Amateur Championship of 1914. Experts agreed that Babe Didrikson can already outdrive any other woman golfer, that she would need another year of practice before her short game and putting are as good...
...today-only Morses. President Robert Hosmer Morse is the son of the founder of the Midwest division, which outstripped and later absorbed Vermont's old E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. Tall, heavy, hard-driving and a judge of good whiskey, President Morse started for college but dropped out of Hill School at the suggestion of his business-minded father, who set him to work as a molder's assistant in the Beloit foundry. During the War, President Morse was chief procurement officer for the U. S. Signal Corps, is still called "Colonel." Now 56, he loves to hunt...
...wish," mused Rev. William MacDougall Hay of Long Hill, Conn.'s Grace Church, writing in the Episcopalian Living Church last week, "some old and wise priest would write a little book of Advice to the Just-Ordained...
When President Conant rode into University Hall two years ago like Paul Revere, keen observers predicted a Harvard Revolution. They were right. Returning graduates will find that the modern Yankee has won decisively at Bunker Hill and Saratoga and that another Yorktown is only a few years distant...
...were offered an unusual treat: an adventure story that was not only dramatic but made good sense. Author B. Traven's tale even had the kind of moral that Hollywood likes-"The glittering treasure you are hunting for day & night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder"-even if its ending was too ruthlessly realistic for Hollywood's taste. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a story of prospecting for gold; it differs from other treasure-seeking tales chiefly in its air of authenticity, its soberly factual setting...