Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished fourth) lost the $10,000 Memphis Open to an amateur. Unruffled by the fast company, Amateur Fred Haas Jr., a Louisiana insurance salesman, was good on the fairways and even better on the greens. He toured the 72 holes in 18-under-par to become the first amateur winner of a major open tourney since...
...Secretary Stimson merely said that the new weapon would "prove a tremendous aid" in shortening the conflict. The men in the know-the scientists racing for the secret of atomic energy, the very few military men who were aware of the race-had said that the winner would have the power to win this war and all wars. Now the U.S. had the power, and had it in combat quantities...
...Pupil Roy Flynn's check from Farrar & Rinehart was for The Changeling, the young (26) man's first novel and winner of the $1,000 Stephen Vincent Benét Scholarship; it was scheduled for publication next spring, and was the 14th novel accepted from a Strode student...
Married. Luise Rainer. 33, bang-browed, earnest-eyed actress, twice winner of Hollywood's top acting honors (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936, The Good Earth, 1937). lately occupied with USOverseas entertaining; and Robert Knittel. English-born editor (Creative Age Press); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...Labor Progressive, were beaten, Mrs. Strum will be the only woman in the new House of Commons. She is the wife of a Saskatchewan farmer, mother of a 14-year-old daughter. A good campaigner, she defeated popular Ernest Edward Perley, Progressive Conservative incumbent, who was a three-time winner, and National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton...