Word: ouimet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need for serving up Canadian culture to an audience uneconomically scattered across a vast land. But the government recognizes the merits of competition, and a new Board of Broadcast Governors (TIME, Nov. 16) will soon begin licensing private-enterprise second stations in all major cities. CBC President Alphonse Ouimet, 51, whose $17,000-a-year salary is less than one-sixth as much as NBC's President Robert Kintner's, expects to clear only $40 million in advertising revenues this year, and Parliament will have to make up the rest of CBC's $75 million budget...
...strike was called in Montreal by 74 French-language TV producers, finally settled after 68 bitter days-while CBC President Alphonse Ouimet collapsed of a heart attack...
...rugged old Royal and Ancient links at St. Andrews, where golf grew up, seemed made to order for the U.S. Walker Cup team. The Americans whipped the best British amateurs 10-2. No U.S. golfers had done as well since the team that boasted Bobby Jones and Francis Ouimet won by the same score...
When he was 26, Jack Westland was runner-up at Chicago in the National Amateur Golf tournament. He lost to Francis Ouimet, 38, one of the oldest men ever to win the title. After that, Jack Westland settled down in Everett, Wash. as a commendable tournament golfer and successful insurance salesman...
...Golf, Futball, Schuting." As captain (i.e., president) of the R. & A., Ouimet occupies a purely honorary post, serves as custodian, for a year, of the St. Andrews cross: two silver clubs joined together. But he joins a tradition almost as old as golf itself. Historians estimate that the natives of St. Andrews first began to use the links,* bounded by St. Andrews Bay and the estuary of the Eden River, around 1100. It was a natural golf course, and only nature has been allowed to change its contours. No man-made traps or bunkers have ever been permitted...