Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Katharine ("Kay") Winthrop, 33, blueblooded Boston tennist (women's national indoor singles champion in 1944); and Massachusetts Sportsman Quincy A Shaw McKean, 57; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Local entrepreneur, sportsman, and presser of men's pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...
...Blows. The theory is known as "bioclimatics." Its father is Dr. William F. Petersen. famed Chicago pathologist and weather student (TIME. Aug. 2, 1943; March 25, 1946). But its most enthusiastic prophet is a rich, eccentric, globe-trotting Bostonian named Manfred Curry. Dr. Curry (a Munich M.D. is a sportsman of note, a yacht designer, and an authority on aerodynamics...
...wrote A History of Chinese Tactics and Strategy of the Past Four Thousand Years. Because Tu was an only son, the old historian did not want him to be a soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
...Praia Pernambuco, a few minutes by ferry from Santos, will have an airfield, a country club, a polo field, a beach club, a fishing club, hotels, shops, and some 500 houses, all furnished with the latest gadgets. Sao Paulo industrial interests, which are putting up millions to construct this sportsman's dream, expect it to be one of the top resort centers in the hemisphere...