Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite retreat at the Augusta National Golf Club for an Easter vacation. The plane landed in Georgia two hours later. For two days April rains hampered Ike's golfing, but at last the sun came out and the President was able to play with a new partner: Lumber Salesman Billy Jo Patton, the sensational amateur from Morgantown, N.C., who finished third, right behind Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, in the recent Masters Tournament. Patton returned to Augusta after the Masters' especially to meet Ike. and together they trounced their opponents, Club Chairman Cliff Roberts and Columbus, Ga. Broker...
...Popovic announced that Yugoslavia and Turkey had agreed, "in principle," on a three-nation Balkan military alliance. Greece, left out of the week's talks, protested that the agreement had been reached without consulting her, but the Little Three's Big Two were confident that their junior partner's ruffled feathers would be smoothed out when Tito visits Athens shortly...
...Harold W. Scott, 49, a Wall Streeter since he graduated from Princeton University in 1925, was nominated (equals election) as the nonpaid chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, succeeding Richard M. Crooks, who declined renomination. A partner of the investment firm of Dean Witter & Co., and a governor of the Exchange since 1949, Scott has been a leader in the Exchange campaign to sell the public on the advantages of stock ownership. George Keith Funston continues as the $100,000-a-year president and chief executive officer of the Exchange...
...Dickinson Lectures were established by a gift from Price, Waterhouse and company, honoring a former partner of the firm, Sir Arthur Lowes Dickinson. The gift specifies that the lecturer each year shall be "a man outstanding in accounting...
Operated by South African Airways, a partner of BOAC, the Comet Yoke Yoke was on its regular scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that had grounded its Comet fleet following the last fatal crash (TIME, Jan. 18), but Yoke Yoke's 21 passengers were brimming with confidence. Waiting for take-off at Rome's Ciampino Airport, one of the three Americans, a Massachusetts shoe-parts manufacturer named Ray Wilkinson, said to his companion: "This is progress. Sure, they've had accidents, but everything...