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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Macdonald Smith, 59, for almost 40 years one of golf's great stylists; of a heart attack; in Glendale, Calif. Although "the Silent Scot" made out handsomely in prize money (he won the Los Angeles Open four times), he never won a major tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Carlos got his first lessons from Don Ricardo, the liberal judge who wanted to see "a democracy in the Locke tradition." But Don Ricardo sounded mild to Carlos after the young man fell in with some of San Marcos' parlor radicals. One of them, a sottish and oracular Scot, explained to him why radicalism would gain a hold among the Indians: "And rrrememberr also, Carries, the Bolsheviks may not be rrright, but they prrresent a hope. To the rrragged and the hungrry and the sick of hearrt they prrresent a hope!" Carlos remembered it a long time, especially after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Problem for Carlos | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Last week, with the temperature at 96°, the white-thatched Scot stood on a shaded platform in Oklahoma City, before 2,500 foundation supporters baking in the sun. Toward the foundation's goal of $3,000,000, almost $2,400,000 had been subscribed by 7,000 citizens. No donation exceeded $26,000 (given by a Shawnee couple in memory of their son); one was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Locketful of Mold | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Surely, such a miscarriage of justice as occurred in the courtroom at Plymouth could not happen in America. Daily we read of such events in Communist countries where [murderers] go scot free because of their warped legal system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Scot of Cambridge will run in both the quarter and the half. He has been clocked at 49 flat in the 440. A 49.4 quarter by Jack Lohnes of Yale won the Crimson-Blue meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoring System Will Favor British in Track Meet | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

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