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Travis B. Smythe, 26, Thornton, Tex., oil refinery chemist, found the fumes of boiling benzine "rather pleasant," not realizing that they were attacking his spleen, causing him pernicious anemia, and hemorrhages of his mucous membranes. Blood has been oozing from his mouth, nostrils, intestines, bladder; and his organs for manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Borrowers | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

*Walter J. Travis, onetime champion golfer, was in the habit of smoking long, slender, virulent stogies during his matches. The ventilation of these stogies, it was said, became especially active on the putting green. It was darkly hinted that the stogies lent Mr. Travis strength while temporarily discomfiting his rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chess | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

As everyone knows, Travis, an Australian, represented the U. S. in 1904, but Sweetser is the first U. S.-born golfer to loft over the championship hazard.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Muirfield | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

"Has Walter J. Travis a beard?" Golf enthusiasts to whom this question was put suddenly last week stuttered. If they had just laid down a copy of Golf Illustrated they cried: "Y-y-yess! And his picture looks like G. B. Shaw." When Mr. Travis was younger he was U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beard | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Married. Bartlett H. S. Travis (son of famed golfer Walter J. Travis, U. S. amateur champion 1900, 1901, 1903, British amateur champion in 1904), twice decorated for bravery while serving as a Lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, to Miss Elise Stanton Hayes; at Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 18, 1926 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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