Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five holes of the final round of the U.S. Amateur golf championship behind him, but he had a slew of other amateur scrambles dating back to 1930 behind him too, and he was bushed. He got no more sympathy than he expected from Defending Champion Harvie Ward Jr., 30. "I can see your lips moving," said Ward, "but I've turned off my hearing...
...front by then, just as he figured to be, handsome Harvie Ward well knew that any round of any amateur championship took all the concentration he could master. Day after day of match play always turns a tournament into a mess of upsets. At Lake Forest's Knollwood Country Club last week, even the weather pitched in to ruffle the field. Scores soared on damp, blustery winds. Co-Favorite Ken Venturi, Ward's San Francisco running mate, the man who almost won the Masters, disappeared in the third round. Californian Bob Roos, the ungainly golfer who beat Venturi...
Most of Knollwood's regular caddies had gone back to school. The strong-backed swabbies from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station who filled in were polite but helpless. They had been taught to say "Sir," but they seldom knew which club to haul from the bag. Harvie Ward was bothered least of all by this lack of practiced help. All he really needed was a putter...
Career: At 24 entered Depression politics, within a year was chairman of his ward's executive committee. In 1939 Philadelphia's Congressman (later Senator) Frank Myers made Finnegan his secretary. Enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942 (air combat intelligence), was discharged a lieutenant colonel in 1946. Thrusting once again into home-town politics, he was elected his party's city chairman, built his success by staying mostly in the background and pushing attractive candidates, e.g., Philadelphia Mayors Joe Clark (1951) and Richardson Dilworth (1955). In 1954 he helped persuade an unknown but respected chicken farmer...
...Every morning a long file of black soldiers in white pajamas used to approach the laboratory down the avenue of palm-trees. Each bore before him a bedpan decently shrouded in a 'cloth, distinctive.' They were the inmates of the dysentery ward bearing their daily offerings...