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Word: mamaroneck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hogan, 46, shared the lead in the first round, but could not stand the pace. Sam Snead, 45, got hot for one three-under-par round, then subsided. By the final 18 holes of the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Winged Foot Country Club course in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y., young (27) Bill Casper Jr. held a three-stroke lead. On the last day Bill Casper, golf's best putter, bogeyed three of the last eight holes, but finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back to wait, and wait. Into contention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Open | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Minority Rights has also recently elected its officers for the coming year. Emile C. Chi '60, of Kirkland House and New York City, was chosen president; Michael R. Lurie '60, of Leverett House and Mamaroneck, N.Y., vice-president; and John W. Sondheim '61, of Leverett House and Baltimore, Md., secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Organizations Elect New Officers | 3/6/1959 | See Source »

...wacky onstage humor and macabre offstage antics have inspired the story that he is as strange as any of the characters he invents-one step away from the funny farm. For further evidence, his friends point to his house in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where in his black secret den he keeps a lonely chair which he considers his throne. "I sit in it and pretend," says he. "I pretend I'm king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: If You're Not Sick . . . | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...neighboring school districts in, again, Westchester County, N.Y. (Westchester, fabled to possess in all its towns and cities the best of all possible school systems, actually runs the gamut from outstanding to abominable, and is thus a suitable area for illustration and internal comparison.) The Board of Education of Mamaroneck decided several years ago that it was time to build an addition to the high school, held meetings and forums, convinced the daily paper to carry stories on the building, and with no difficulty, managed to have the bond issue passed. When it was discovered that the original figure...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Public Schools Call for Co-operation Between School, School Board, Public; But Such Harmony Breeds Many Dangers | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...particularly object to chrome and wild colors," says Alexander P. Gest Jr., president of the small Mitchel Oil Corp. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. "But the thing I can't stand is that you can't tell the present-day cars apart. They all look alike. I honestly can't tell a Plymouth from a Cadillac when they go by fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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