Word: picard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERT S. PICARD...
...weak on sex and popular novels, includes textbooks, classics reprints, and such unexpected offerings as The Natural History of a Yard and How to Free Yourself from Nervous Tension. Regnery risks his money on such deserving but esoteric authors as England's Wyndham Lewis and Swiss Philosopher Max Picard. A fat list of steadily selling Roman Catholic books helps him take losses on less popular works...
...place in the Los Angeles Open, then won the Oakland Open and the Bing Crosby tournament over the full field of America's top professionals. Sportswriters dubbed him "Slamming Sammy." In Los Angeles one day, on a practice tee, Snead tried out a decrepit driver belonging to Henry Picard...
...liked the feel of it and Picard, who was planning to throw the club away, sold it to him for $5.50. The driver cured Snead's troublesome hook, and he has carried it in his golf bag ever since, broken and repaired a dozen times. (Snead estimates that he has won more than $5,000 with it in driving contests alone.) Snead and Fred Corcoran, then tournament manager for the P.G.A., became the Gold Dust twins. Together they pulled golf out of the doldrums. Corcoran, an entrepreneur with a leprechaun nose for pots of gold, succeeded in getting...
...Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study the great laws of science and the experiments and logic that produced them. Later, the stage narrows down to the student's chosen field. Finally (for honors men) comes the senior thesis that might bear the title, "A 13th Century Sermon in Picard on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary" or "The Persians of Aeschylus...