Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length course -6,622 yd. It is more famed for beauty than stiffness. Johnny Fischer, lanky 6-ft. University of Michigan junior, this year's intercollegiate champion, broke the course record with a 69 on the first day, was medalist with a 142 for the 36 holes. Qualifying score was 152. The player who looks so much like Woodrow Wilson, defending champion Francis Ouimet, barely saved himself in the last seven holes to qualify with a 151. All the British Walker Cup team but one were eliminated, as were three former titleholders, Jess Sweetser, Max Marston, Harrison Johnston. Perry...
...Paul Bern's funeral, conducted in Grace Chapel by Rabbi Edgar Magnin, was a $25,000 display of flowers estimated by the undertaker to be the greatest display in Hollywood history. Nosing about outside the chapel was a crowd of 2,000. Inside were a score of Hollywood celebrities. Excerpts from the eulogy delivered by Cinemactor Conrad Nagel: "This can't be the end. His gentle spirit is still with us. We bid you godspeed, Paul Bern, on your journey to a better place and we say here in your own words and in all reverence...
...suspected they had been "sold out" by their leaders to please the White House. At State conventions one department after another began plumping for cash at once. The cry for cash arose in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Texas, California and a score more. Speak ers against the Bonus were roughly booed to silence. There was money to be had in Washington and legionaries were bent on getting it. It was hard to make them see why railroads and banks could get hundreds of millions while jobless, hungry veterans got not a penny...
...singles next day were a pleasant formality. Low score of the day ? George Dunlap's 66, while he was beating Eric McRuvie, 10 & 9 ? was a new record for Walker Cup play. When Ouimet was 3 up with 8 to play against Torrance it looked as if he were sure to even matters for the 7 & 6 beating that Torrance gave him two years ago but Torrance got a 2 on the 30th and played beautiful golf to halve the match. Two other matches ? Burke v. Westland and Stout v. Sweet ser ? ended all-even after...
...Iowa City and What Cheer. Grant Wood, 40, was born at Anamosa, Iowa. His Iowa landscapes look like photographs of landscapes modelled out of hard candy. The man-made detail-houses, pumps, fence-palings-are mathematically meticulous. The natural detail is stylized, as in a treetop indicated by a score of leaf-shapes that look as though turned out by a cookie-mould. His people have pioneer faces, gimlet eyes, snapping turtle-mouths, long vertical furrows down their faces. lowans like Grant Wood's hard, varnished paintings of themselves. They had conscientiously bought his early pictures. Trained...