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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Lynn Fischeile of Kirkland House and Philadelphia, Penn.: Student Council Treasurer; House Committee; Executive Committee, Salzburg Seminar; Crimson Key Society; NSA Delegate; Phillips Brooks House; Glee Club and Choir; Boylston Speaking Contest Prize-winner; Varsity Squash Team; Varsity Tennis Manager...
...struck out for Los Angeles with $75 and big ideas about making the winter tour. A month later he was back in Fort Worth, broke. The following winter, he went west again, got as far as the Agua Caliente Open (where he won no prize money) and the Phoenix Open (where he picked up $50). He had turned in some good scores for 18 holes, but he had no consistency. It taught him one lesson: "There's no such thing as one good shot in big-time golf. They all have to be good-and for 72 holes...
Like any good businessman or golf pro, Ben Hogan loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...
Them As Has. In Guelph, Ont., the local Lions Club offered their raffle prize-a year's supply of ice-to Mrs. John Collens, wife of an electric-refrigerator dealer...
According to rules governing the award of the prize, established by the late Percival Wood Clement, governor of Vermont, each essay should not exceed 3000 words in length. The papers must be submitted by April...