Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying the mail out of St. Paul one night four years ago, Pilot Mal Bryan Freeburg of Northwest Airlines spied a flaming railroad trestle, flagged a crack passenger express to a stop with his emergency landing flares, saved many a life including that of Golfer Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr. For that feat he received a gold watch from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., $100 from the Chicago Daily News...
...year-old named Francis Ouimet beat two of the world's most famed golfers. Ted Ray and Harry Vardon, in a play-off for the U. S. Open Championship. At Brookline last week a Bobby Jones, 18. of Detroit, put out Francis Ouimet. Famed Robert Tyre Jones of Atlanta watched the match, praised his namesake's putting...
Dropping his search in the world field and turning his eyes toward home, the Man-of-the-Year-hunter would discover no likely candidates in the realm of sport. No golfer won more than one big match, and Robert Tyre Jones's record of 1930 (British & U. S. open, British & U. S. amateur) had not been remotely approached. Frank Shields, who was left off the Davis Cup team for his erratic playing, was named No. 1 U. S. tennist, after Ellsworth Vines turned professional. As picked by the Pulitzer Prize judges, Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses might...
...lives out on fashionable Peachtree Street in a rambling two-story house on a five-acre lot not far from Washington Seminary, famed girls' school. A good Baptist, he helped sponsor Billy Sunday's Atlanta meetings. A member of East Lake Country Club, he golfs with Robert Tyre Jones Sr. there and also at Highlands, N. C., where both spend the summers. The Black score is in the high...
Quietest but most crushing squelch came from the greatest golfer of them all. In Hollywood, whither he went to make some movies after the gala opening of his Augusta National Course (TIME, Jan. 23), Robert Tyre Jones II said with the finality of an old poker player discussing wild deuces: "It might make an interesting game, but it would not be golf...