Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent connections in that city through Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank, an oldtime Nashville friend. He is also interested in Alligator Co., St. Louis. He has been identified with many a Southern hotel, including the Kentucky in Louisville, the Andrew Jackson in Nashville, and Lookout Mountain Hotel, Chattanooga, where Garnet Carter conceived Tom Thumb Golf (TIME, July 14). Banks, garages and textiles likewise are included in his interests. So great is his faith in Banking-on-the-South that in 1928 he sponsored Shares in the South, Inc., an investment trust to specialize in Southern securities with...
Historic is Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, with one foot in Tennessee and one in Georgia. Here the Union soldiers tumbled the greycoats into retreat in the Battle Above the Clouds; here, last year, shrewd Garnet Carter, owner of Fairyland Club, built the first Tom Thumb golf course, complicating an ordinary 18-hole putting course with ingenious hazards. Last week to Fairyland went putters from many corners of the U. S. to roll balls through hollows, to carom them from banks, down tunnels, over dishpan water hazards and around basket-size sand-traps in the first national Tom Thumb championship...
...First National Tom Thumb tournament; at Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn...
...name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant Bay (off Lynn, Mass.) could be rechristened to immortalize the omni- present Lydia by changing it to Tinkham Bay.' 'Bromo Seltzer River' . . . for the Patapsco River at Baltimore...
...Thomas Ross, civilian pigeon expert for the U. S. Army Signal Corps stationed at Fort Monmouth, N. J. was a worried man. His favorite bird, Molly Pitcher, was missing. He had sent her to the pigeon flying at Chattanooga, Tenn., Kentucky Derby of U. S. pigeondom. Loosed there from Lookout Mountain, she had failed to fly home. Ross was sure she knew the way (600 mi.), and of the 500 war couriers under his care, she is one of the fastest. Last year in the Grand National race at Danville, Va., she was second...