Search Details

Word: ouimet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...former caddie, Sarazen was inspired by watching Francis Ouimet win the 1913 U.S. Open. Nine years later, Sarazen won the U.S. Open with a final-round 68 to defeat Jones and Walter Hagen, then won the PGA Championship later that season at Oakmont. He beat Hagen in the PGA in 1923 and won seven major championships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Legend Sarazen Dies at 97 | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...Alan Ouimet, 61, of Madison, Conn., feels the same way. He embarked on a charitable second career 10 years ago, after retiring as a special agent with the FBI. With a pension worth $41,000, or 70% of his previous annual salary of $59,000, the security of a $250,000 life-insurance policy and his $280,000 home as assets, Ouimet began running the Franciscan Family Apostolate Inc., a Guilford, Conn., charity that is helping 1,100 impoverished families in India rebuild their lives. His current salary: around $30,000 a year. "I enjoyed my 31 years with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Careers After Retirement | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Ouimet, Sarnoff and a growing number of professionals who are retiring in their 40s and 50s to embark on second careers, a whole new life is just beginning. Their motivations are as individual as the people involved, but from a macro-economic point of view, they represent the baby-booming future. As the giant demographic bulge of the boomers moves deeper into middle age, many of them are severing connections with the institutions where they have worked for decades and are striking out afresh, while they are still hale enough to do something rigorous and challenging with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Careers After Retirement | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Others may find that their true calling is to be their own boss. If so, it's best to have earned some experience running your own business, maybe even doing it part time before you retire early from your full-time career. That was Alan Ouimet's route. He began running his charity part time in 1971, so he had 17 years of experience and knowledge when he made the 1998 switch from his job at the FBI. "If you have always worked for someone else in a structured setting, you have to determine if you are self-motivated enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Careers After Retirement | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...hope of both African and Asian Americans, not to mention Nike, and he must deal with much more media than Palmer ever did. And those demands will only increase as his tour proceeds back through golf history, from Palmer's Bay Hill to the Masters created by Jones to Ouimet's U.S. Open. "Tiger has an opportunity to become one of the greatest golfers, or maybe even the greatest golfer, of all time," Palmer recently told Larry Guest of the Orlando Sentinel. "But coming with that is the heavy responsibility to preserve the traditions and integrity of the game that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KINGS OF SWING | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next