Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Joseph Patrick ("Holy Joe") Boyle, 65, bland, blue-eyed longtime ward heeler for Memphis' E. H. ("Boss") Crump, who became police commissioner in 1940, gave the old steamboat town the cold-water blues by kicking out its gamblers, shutting down its bordellos; after a stroke; in Memphis...
Raider Louis Wolfson, who parlayed a Jacksonville junkyard into a $240 million empire and attempted to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward, sounded a general retreat last week. He is getting out of Montgomery Ward and selling all his 59,000 shares (at an expected profit of about $750,000). Furthermore, he is thinking of selling the Highway Trailer Co., the Marion Power Shovel Co. and its subsidiary, the Osgood Co., all controlled by Merritt-Chapman & Scott, which Wolfson runs as chairman, president and chief stockholder (more than 157,000 out of 5,374,360 shares...
...automobile salesman by profession, Ward (along with Ken Venturi) just happens to work for a Lincoln-Mercury dealer named Eddie Lowery, who just happens to be a U.S. Golfing Association official. Harvie can afford to spend most of his waking hours on the golf course. In his deft hands the reshafted putter that was his very first golf club has become the hottest in the world...
...faded, Harvie's game got better and better. Coming home on the back nine, he fired sub-par golf, overpowered the weary challenger to win 5 and 4. In the long history of the U.S. Amateur, only six other men have won the title twice in succession. Harvie Ward is the first man to turn the trick since Lawson Little last won in 1935. And since he has no intention of turning pro, he is a prime favorite to win again...