Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed to qualify. Tony Manero, U. S. Open champion, played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig Wood. Wild Bill Melhorn appeared...
...first major tournament-the British Open in 1933-Densmore Shute did what most playing professionals predicted would speedily ruin his game. Instead of joining the troupe who spend the whole year playing golf for prizes, he calmly continued giving lessons. Shute's lack of competitive sharpening and Thomson's prodigious driving made Thomson a 2-to-1 favorite in last week's final. Out-driven on every hole, sometimes as much as 125 yards, on a course where distance counts, Shute played down the middle of the fairways. Thomson lost the first hole. He caught...
Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity. By no means so pompous in his professional recollections as Sir Basil Thomson, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (The Story of Scotland Yard), Melvin Horace Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete...
...gesture of international goodwill the English-Speaking Union presented Washington's Smithsonian Institution with a bronze bust of renowned 19th Century Physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, From English scientists came a 1,500-word greeting. Scottish scientists parsimoniously cabled: "Felicitations...
Like National Broadcasting Co. in the U. S., England's British Broadcasting Corp. was started by radio manufacturers to give set owners something to listen to. B. B. C. founders in 1922 were the "wireless" firms of Marconi, Radio Communication Co., Metropolitan Vickers, British Thomson-Houston Co., General Electric and Western Electric. Four years later this private monopoly was given a ten-year royal charter, made a public institution somewhere between a Government Department and a commercial undertaking, independent in its daily doings but under the ultimate control of His Majesty's Government...