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...Average Golfer shoots 85 to 100; is tickled pink if he pars two or three holes in an afternoon; he is the mainstay of all golf (Continued on p. 8) clubs and courses; he is generally a sucker for some professional, and without his support the professional golfer would disappear like the famous snowball in Hades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts along with Artists John Sloan and William Glackens, got into illustrating as they did, by doing newspaper work in Philadelphia. Gruger remained an illustrator. After 1899 when George Horace Lorimer became editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Gruger became the mainstay of that magazine. The Post's romantic and period fiction by such experts as Joseph Herge-sheimer and Donn Byrne got half its atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Illustrators | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...rubber. Two years ago most of the companies were sagging under heavy inventories; currently, the tire inventory position is the lowest in four years and revival of the automobile industry gives rubbermen reason to anticipate an excellent year. But though tire and tube sales are the industry's mainstay, providing 65% of total volume, the most significant fact about rubber today is its technological progress. At the threshold of its second 100 years, the industry is bubbling over with new ideas, new products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 100 Good Years | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Calfee led the way for the Gold Coasters with four field goals, while Goodwin looked good for the Funsters by virtue of six goals and one foul. The mainstay of the Deacons was Baggerly who scored ten points, and Murphy of the Bellboys took high scoring honors for the day with eight two pointers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys, Deacons, Funsters And Gold Coasters Victors | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

About the only positions that have been filled definitely as a result of practice thus far is the first line with Captain Austic Harding, mainstay of this year's squad at center, Win Jameson and Warren Winslow at left and right wings respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY OPENER NEARS WITH FEW MEN PLACED | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

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