Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the race wide open, a bumper field of 31 horses paraded to the post at beautiful Flemington course. There were nearly 108,000 Australians on hand to watch, and most of the commonwealth's other 7,000,000-odd stopped everything-even streetcars-while they listened by radio...
With most of the gallery tagging at his heels, he fired a par-smashing 68. That put him three strokes up on Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis who was U.S. Open champion and Snead's main rival for golfer-of-the-year. In the second round Sam hooked...
On the final round, while Middlecoff was floundering, Snead treated himself to a 66. By winning the North and South (by six strokes over Runner-Up Johnny Bulla), Sam Snead boosted his earnings for the year to $32,393. Next best: Middlecoff, with $25,354.
It was in the U.S., he writes, that the idea first took root that psychoanalysis and religion could somehow lie down together and live happily ever after. "In America all races and creeds live and work peacefully side by side-why should not ideas do likewise? . . . It is . . .in such...
Albert Sidney Johnstone of Richmond, Va. had always wanted to be a minister, but illness forced him to give up the idea. Instead, he became a businessman, eventually became personnel officer of Richmond's Federal Reserve Bank. Richmond came to know him as a leader in charities and civic...