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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...titles and some minor British tournaments to his credit as well. But never anything like that fine semifinal at Formby. With his crisp, choppy swing, the ex-tailgunner demoralized South Africa's Arthur Walker, 13 and 12. British championship golf had not known such a bad beating since Lawson Little won the Amateur title from James Wallace at Prestwick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Harold's Homicide | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Died. Robert Lawson, 64, puckish illustrator and author of children's books (Rabbit Hill, Mr. Twigg's Mistake, Ben and Me), who won fame with his drawings of the retiring bull hero of The Story of Ferdinand (written by Munro Leaf); of a heart attack; in Westport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

When asked why they keep the memory of Holmes alive year after year, Douglas Lawson, Keeper of the Band, replied, "Memory! Memory, my dear fellow: the great man is still very much alive, aged 103, and raising bees in Sussex...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: 'Speckled Band' Meets at Signet To Honor Sherlock Holmes' Work | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

...primarily a vehicle for ideas, the characterizations drawn by many of the experimental playwrights are, at best, perfunctory. As in two of the undergraduate plays presented at Yale, the characters may be little more than convenient figures from mythology--Greek, in the case of Princeton's Reflections, (by Wayne Lawson), or Christian, in Swarthmore's Walk the Circle (by Werner Honig). Sometimes, as in Mary Manning's fine adaptation of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which was staged by Mount Holyoke, the characters are not recognizable people...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Yale Drama Festival | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...Jerusalem, President David Ben-Gurion interrupted a Cabinet session to confer with U.S. Ambassador Edward B. Lawson on the Gaza crisis...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Magsaysay, Philippine President, Dies in Crash of Private Plane; Israel Blames U.N. for Gaza Crisis | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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