Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaker is Lt. Bob Hackett '48, now Standish Hall freshman back from the wars. Holder of the Purple Heart, instructor of horsemanship at Fort Riley and polo player par-excellence, he was commissioned as the youngest cavalry officer in he history of the U. S. Army back in the summer...
Sport in general had slumped to an alltime, wartime low. The outstanding exception was professional golf-and its star of stars. The quality of competition in other sports had fallen off, but in golf the steady competition of par was the same as ever. Against that unwavering opponent, John Byron Nelson had proved himself not only the athlete of the year but one of the greatest golfers ever...
...worked hard; 50 to 60 coups par jour. From three to ten at night. And three flights of stairs every time. My feet were gone before dark. Soldiers and sailors came from all over Norway, and officers in civilian clothes. We knew what ships were in port, what units were passing through, but there was no one to tell...
...tale. "The food was terrible. Potatoes and fish. If we asked for seconds, we were gourmandes. And after the way we were working! We lived in the rooms where we worked and we could not leave the house. Sentries stopped us at the door. We made three kroner par coup (nominally $1.40), which added up. But when we sent our money home, the filthy Boche stole...
...about the Fisher Brothers since they quit General Motors (TiME, Aug. 14). The Brothers filed incorporation papers in Lansing, Mich, for two new companies, Fisher Brothers, Inc. and Fisher Motor Car Co. (They had previously incorporated in Delaware.) The companies, each of which has 1,000 shares of no par common stock, declared their purpose to design, manufacture, sell, repair and deal in airplanes, automobiles and "any & all automotive products." As usual, the Fishers kept their actual plans to themselves. Detroit's guess: the Fisher plans are still nebulous, and formation of the companies at this time is merely...