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Little Ben Hogan, the golfer of the year, squatted on the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club (Calif.) last week, studying a downhill five-foot putt. His opponents regard the process with some awe; Hogan habitually comments that a green is a "hard one to think"; he doesn't say that it is hard to play. He sank the five-footer...
...ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very likely to end up finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale, Zigzag switched to Rhododendron, Screamerville to Chancellor, Bee Pee to the more progressive Chevrolet. Recently named post offices include XRay, Radio, Gasoline, Tarzan, Gene Autry...
...winners are Jesse Do Boor 2G, of Grand Rapids, Mich., philosophy; George McK. Elsey 2G, of Oakmont, Pa., history; Hans W. Gatzko 3G, of WilHamstown, Mass., history; Honry Hurwitz, Jr. 3G, of New York, N.Y., physics; James S. Kronthal 3G, of New York, N.Y., fine arts; George W. Mackey, Teaching Follow in Mathematics at Harvard, mathematics; Robert M. Smith, of Bothayres, Pa., theology; Alan S. Trueblood 2G, of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Romance languages and literatures; and Charles Meyer 2G, of St. Louis, Mo., Geology (for the summer...
Emerton fellowships to Oscar E. Anderson Jr., of South Bend, Ind.; George McK. Elsey 1G, of Oakmont, Pa.; and William L. Spalding Jr., of Westfield...
Publisher Robert Lee Vann had just left the University of Pittsburgh with a law degree when he founded the Courier in 1910. Today he is a power in Pennsylvania politics, keeps a handsome home in Oakmont, Pittsburgh suburb. Gross income of the Courier in 1938 was over $500,000. Something like $40,000 of that went to Publisher Vann as profit...