Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medal Winner. The committee went after other high officers. It cited "the decoration with the Legion of Merit of a colonel in the Engineer Corps who had so badly mismanaged the only source of replacement parts for engineers' equipment in the world that the War Department had to send in a special team to clean up the depot." And it ridiculed a general who explained that "he located a hospital in a swamp because he rode over the land on horseback in winter and didn't notice...
...season, Nelson had talked wistfully of his 1,500-acre Texas ranch. He would go home, he said, turn up only for the Masters and one or two other tourneys a year, as onetime greats like Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen do. Nelson, winner of every major U.S. tournament (some of them four times) had lost the sustained mechanical precision with which he stroked out a fantastic average 18-hole score of 68.3 throughout...
...venerable Longwood Cricket Club, the next-to-last stop on the tournament line. There the National Doubles Championships were at stake. The goal they were all shooting for-the U.S. Singles-begins this week at Forest Hills. The big names: 1) skyscraping Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner; 2) solemn Frank Parker, the U.S. champion; 3) brilliant but unpredictable ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer; 4) jugeared Bill Talbert, best of the wartime tournament regulars. Among the women, there was one whose name led all the rest-California's Pauline Betz...
...Pauline, a friendly, attractive and aggressive American girl, is three-time winner of the U.S. Women's Singles. This week she will be out to win a fourth time-a feat that has been accomplished six times before.* Pauline is a trim 5 ft. 5; her hair is strawberry blonde, sun bleached and wiry. Principally because of her green eyes she seems to have a ready-to-pounce, feline quality. A straightening of her shoulders is a characteristic mannerism-a squaring away that seems to symbolize in an otherwise relaxed girl, a won't-be-beat spirit...
Dave Challinor, winner of the Novice Single event, rowed well, but the race settled down to a gruelling battle for second place between Day and Julian Simmons '42, who had handily won the Junior Singles crown...