Word: marvinism
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Worst prize for the issue, however, goes to Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. for his stodgy, humorless praises of Harvard in "An Appreciation of Four Years." One almost prefers the Progressive's vituperations to the smooth phrases flowing from the pen of Life's "typical Harvard...
...easy swing similar to that of famed Francis Ouimet, Vines shot a 72 in the first round. It was not the best score of the day (bespectacled Skip Alexander of North Carolina turned in 67). But it was better than that posted by Defending Champion Dick Chapman, 1939 Champion Marvin ("Bud") Ward, onetime British Amateur Champion Charley Yates (now a U.S. Army private) and onetime U.S. Open and Amateur Champion Johnny Goodman, the pride of Omaha, who was playing on his home course...
Hearing over, the board voted 10-to-5 to fire not only Dean Cocking but "Furriner" (Mississippi-born) Marvin S. Pittman, president of Georgia State Teachers College and Georgia-born J. Curtis Dixon, vice chancellor of the State University system. Said Talmadge: "Dixon was just as much tied up with the Rosenwald Fund as Cocking was." Next day, with pixie logic, Talmadge chose as Cocking's successor a furriner from Maryland, Dr. Edwin Pusey, who is also a trustee of a Negro school in Georgia (Fort Valley) supported by Rosenwald Funds...
Eilot Hubbard 3rd Cambridge, Mass.; Robert M. Jenney, Brookline, Mass.; Frank C. Langdon, La Grange, I11,; Joseph A. Locke Jr., Newton Center, Mass,; Richard D. Mansfield, Somerville, Mass.; Wilbur Marvin Hollis...
...when Millionaire Marvin Leonard, a native Texan who had parlayed a downtown popcorn stand into Fort Worth's biggest department store, plunked a $25,000 guarantee on the directors' table of the U.S. Golf Association, its bigwigs decided that Texans deserved to play host to the blue-ribbon event of golf...