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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, they found him. Crowds lined the shores of Cape Cod Canal the next day waiting. Tricky, and famed for his practical-jokingness, their Hero putputted seaward, rounded the cape and anchored at Provincetown, where the press picked him up once more. The Hero turned a spotlight on a rowboat full of reporters who came to inquire, picked up his anchor, and slipped away at midnight. Next day an airplane swooped over Hero's boat, the Mouette* as it putputted eastward with Hero's Wife at the wheel, Hero ducking out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put put | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

George Duncan won the 36th hole and his match from Walter Hagen by putting 40 feet around a stymie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Women's Championship | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Turnesa beat Britain's Ernest Whitcombe on the 19th hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Women's Championship | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Davies took a 1-up lead on his 7th hole with George Duncan, halved the next eleven holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Women's Championship | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...given a $250 bonus and a $10 a week job. Still not quite 20 years old, Charles Knox opened the first Knox shop at 110 Fulton St. So small was his store that only one customer at a time could be accommodated. Thus the shop became known as the Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox soon moved to larger quarters. Among early Knox customers were Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennet, Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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