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...first took up golf to cure a weak back. She has an impeccable style but her specialty of pitching dead to the flag had not been working on Wentworth's sloping greens. She braced herself, squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game tag-ender. Molly Gourlay had gone out in 38 to put her two down. Mrs. Hill came home in 39 with the match squared. Rain or shine, the team score thus stood 5½ to 3½, first victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies in the Rain | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...parade of corporations getting into the "next big industry": air conditioning equipment. Dr. Robert G. Guthrie, chief metallurgist of the Chicago utility, announced the invention of a new chemical compound which he calls "lamisilite." "Lamisilite" is a silicate like silica gel (which certain new air conditioners use), quartz, opal, beryl, tourmaline, garnet, mica. Like silica gel, the new material is highly hygroscopic- absorbs moisture, dehumidifies air. The mother ore of "lamisilite" is a trade secret. Victor Chemical Co., who will make the material for the gas-operated conditioners, knows of large deposits in North and Central America, some in South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lamisilite | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...Maureen Orcutt: the North and South Women's golf championship; from Mrs. Opal Hill; in Pinehurst, N. C. Miss Orcutt, never in the lead until the end of the natch, sank two putts each more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Columbus judge, Homer Z. Bostwick, 55 and married, had given a $2,300 diamond ring, an automobile and other presents to one Opal Walker, 24. When Opal Walker married another man, Judge Bostwick demanded back his gifts. Opal Walker refused to surrender them, whereupon Judge Bostwick extorted them by having her threatened with imprisonment for perjury because of a technical flaw in her marriage license. The Citizen dug up the story, opened fire on Judge Bostwick. circulated a petition, brought him to trial. The judge's ally, Publisher Harry Preston Wolfe's Columbus Dispatch, accused the Citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Indian-Giving Judge | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Opal Sheet Glass

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Absolute Embargo | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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