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Like most weekend golfers, an Englishman named A. (for Arthur) P. Pedrick, 52, often found his game wanting. "I was frustrated with my slicing and hooking," he says, "and I spent a lot of time looking for the damn ball in the rough. It was infuriating." But Pedrick, a mechanical engineer by training, a tinkerer by inclination-and a better inventor than golfer-has now filed plans with the British Patent Office for a series of devices that could offer the suffering duffer new hope on the links...
...Pedrick first attacked a major problem for both duffers and professionals. Unless the face of the golf club meets the ball absolutely perpendicular to the intended line of flight, the ball will either hook off to one side of the fairway or slice to the other. Sent into a spin by a glancing blow from the club, the ball acts like an airfoil; higher pressure develops on the side spinning in the direction of forward motion and pushes the ball toward the opposite side...
...deduction for his dependent mother-in-law for four years after her death. Lustig admitted all this.His only defense : he had voluntarily told the Treasury of the evasions, had been promised immunity if he paid up. The deal had been made, said he, with Internal Revenue Collector William J. Pedrick on March 26, 1945. Retorted Pedrick: there had been no deal. At the time set by Lustig, Pedrick had been attending an Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner-and eight prominent Manhattanites so testified...
John E. Smith, Jr. -- Miss Anne Pedrick, Wheaton...
Miss F. M. Adams, Mrs. Jay R. Benton, Mrs. Thomas H. Bilodeau, Mrs. John Bowen, Mrs. W. H. Butler, Mrs. Howard T. Case, Mrs. Wilson D. Clark Jr., Mrs. Martin Evers, Mrs. James H. Flood, Mrs. Robert W. Palmer, Mrs. Richard V. Pedrick, Mrs. C. R. Porter, Mrs. Stanley B. Purdy, Mrs. C. O. Richardson, Mrs. Herbert Rogers, Mrs. M. L. Rogers, Mrs. Harry W. Russell, Mrs. Hollis L. Seavey, Mrs. Walter H. Sides, Mrs. S. G. Sleeper, Mrs. C. N. Smith, Mrs. Thomas K. Snyder, Mrs. Sidney St. F. Thaxter, Mrs. A. A. Thayer, Mrs. Richard M. Walsh...