Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over-par four. When Sam got no better than par on the 18th, he gave a horde of newsmen one glum look: "It was that damned seventeenth that did it." Gary Middlecoff just grinned and paid off his $10 hedge-bet. With a $2,000 first prize and the prestige that goes with being U.S. Open golf champion, he could well afford it. Snead had tied for second place with North Carolinian Clayton Heafner...
...take a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She taught at Manhattan's progressive Dalton Schools, later became the first woman teacher in the history department of New York's City College. She later became an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and last year won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography, Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow. Last week, at 39, pretty, petite Historian Clapp won Wellesley's top honor: out of 150 candidates, she was chosen the college's eighth president...
...stars and the survivors of 1,302 lesser golfers who spent last week qualifying* would fight it out in the U.S. Open, the tournament Sam Snead called "the daddy of them all." Whatever happened (in two other years he had fallen apart on the greens after having the big prize within his grasp), Sam was certain of one thing: Stan Curtis would never get that putter back...
...essays, the James Gordon Bennett prize goes to Royden A. Keddy '49; the Philo Sherman Bennett award, to Immanuel H. Kohn '48; the DeLaucey K. Jay award to Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.; and the Toppan award to George Albert Lanyi, Ph.D. candidate...
...Robert Fletcher Rogers prize for mathematics papers was split by William J. Puranski 1G, and Lawrence Friedman Markus...