Word: tarboro
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Blistered Feet. Son of a Tarboro, N.C. druggist, Ward started to play seriously at 13, when he found a rusting, hickory-shafted putter in an abandoned locker. In 1949, as a University of North Carolina undergraduate, he won the intercollegiate championship; in 1952 he beat Toledo's Frank Stranahan for the British amateur championship. Always he used the same old putter, had it reshafted three times...
Bringing in the Leaves. For tobacco, last of the major field crops to require picking by hand, the Long Mfg. Co. of Tarboro, N. C. has developed a seven-man harvester mounted on wheeled stilts that can gather and tie into bundles enough leaves to fill two drying barns a day (seven men working by hand can fill only one barn a day). The harvester, which will be in production by January, can also be converted into a crop duster. Price: about...
Frank Stranahan, 30, of Toledo, golf's itinerant millionaire, spends most of his waking hours thinking or playing golf with grim-faced concentration. Harvie Ward, 26, of Tarboro, N.C. spends a good part of his time at his stockbroker's job, plays golf with a more happy-go-lucky air. A onetime intercollegiate golf champion (1949 for the University of North Carolina), boyish Harvie Ward plays in big tournaments now & then, but he was still without a major victory when he teed off with Stranahan in Scotland last week...