Word: laursen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Svend Laursen, of Cambridge Massachusetts, as instructor in Economics and tutor; Ph.D. Harvard...
...almost so. Even the women began to make perfect scores look like child's play. First, Mrs. M. L. Smythe, a 96-lb. Aurora, Ohio housewife, broke 100 straight - the first century ever chalked up by a woman in a national skeet tournament. Then, 19-year-old Patricia Laursen, a Rollins College junior, often called America's most beautiful athlete, scored another...
...target, all-gauge championship, main event of the tournament (all others are at 100 birds), another precedent came perilously close to being smashed. Entering the 50-target final round, Miss Laursen was tied with three men at 199 x 200 (99 in her first round, 100 straight in her second), just one shot behind Perfect Marksmen Dick Shaughnessy and Charles Poulton. But, at the final 50, Miss Laursen got jittery, wound up with 246 x 250, had to be content with the women's championship (for the third year...