Word: kids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they do, they know it doesn't apply to them. It's the kid's turn now. They don't notice that more has changed than just the buildings, that now Harvard is educating a different kind of man to serve a different kind of function. In fact, they haven't really kept up with Harvard...
Said her father, a Manhattan postal clerk: "Evelyn's a good kid. She swings and sways like nobody's business. I hope she pleased the King and Queen...
...Omaha Kid-One of the first to congratulate Champion Yates was his roommate, Johnny Goodman. Although he had hoped to add the British Amateur to his collection of cups, Johnny Goodman was not hopeless. Bobby Jones, too, had been eliminated before the semi-finals in the 1926 British Amateur which his Walker Cup teammate Jess Sweetser finally won. In fact, Bobby Jones failed three times before finally winning it in 1930, the year he made his famed "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U. S. Amateur, U. S. Open). Goodman could still try for the British Open next month...
Born in Omaha's meat-packing district, of Lithuanian immigrant parents, John George Goodman was practically unknown when he calmly drove up to the Pebble Beach course in 1929 and qualified for the U. S. Amateur. The following day the 19-year-old Omaha Kid made the front pages when he eliminated Bobby Jones in the first round of match play. But in his home town Johnny Goodman had long been front-page news, was as much a part of Omaha as its stockyards. He first appeared in the news in 1916 when...
...year he graduated from high school with the top scholastic prize (a $200 scholarship for "citizenship"), he climaxed a series of local golfing honors by beating a Kansas City millionaire in the final of the Trans-Mississippi championship. Then the Omaha Kid became the hero of Omaha. There were banquets and parades and, by popular subscription, a fund of $1,565 was raised to send him to the University of Nebraska. Two years later he won the Nebraska State championship, went on to Pebble Beach and national fame...