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...local country club, he admitted frankly that he "didn't know which end of a stymie to take hold of." His 23-year-old daughter, Estelle (Phi Beta Kappa), knew less. Together they read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students golf-conscious but Daughter Lawson-a caddy carrying her four clubs in his hand like sticks of kindling wood- survived two qualifying rounds of the women's Southern golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Patty's Day | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...many a hard-working businessman, scornful of boondoggling, the letters WPA mean We Putter Away. Last week the Works Progress Administration ceased preliminary puttering, began work on a project to delight every manufacturer and merchant in the land. Businessmen have been increasingly confused by 44 Federal and State fair-trade laws, by a jungle of anti-price-discrimination statutes. Governmental agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have wondered just how much these 20th Century laws have improved or hampered trade, how much they have raised the cost of living. In April, WPA announced that it would find out, through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Government's Week: Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Back in Washington after a fortnight at Pinehurst-during which he dabbled about with a putter, found golf almost as amusing as his favorite game of croquet, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week found it necessary to play his way out of three delicate diplomatic hazards. The slow-speaking Secretary timed his strokes well and executed them neatly but, as golfers have a habit of doing, he felt inclined by week's end to indulge in a dash of reasonably non-diplomatic language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cornfield Lawyers | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...staged a big show of sporting art in Chicago for just those elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them around a cellophane pond on which floated a fleet of wooden decoys. At the opening, two attendants at a long bar made the ruddy guests feel quite at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hearty Art | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Frank Strafaci. that his timing went bad. Nevertheless, he was not beaten until the final green, where he looked up prematurely on a short approach shot then missed a 5-ft. putt. Next day in the semi-finals Champion Fischer's woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless, and he was beaten 6 & 5 by Ray Billows, straight-hitting, 23-year-old printing salesman of Poughkeepsie N. Y. In the other semi-final match Johnny Goodman, Omaha insurance salesman nosed out Marvin ("Bud") Ward, Tacoma tax clerk. That left Goodman v. Billows for the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Last, Goodman | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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