Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles by plane, had tramped 155 miles on foot, had taken 2,860 strokes on 600 holes, had worn out two dozen pair of gloves, had not lost a ball. His lowest score was 77, his highest...
...Greek runner who fell dead as he took the last step of the first marathon in 490 B.C. (22 miles from Marathon to Athens), 31-year-old Golfer Ferebee, after dog-trotting almost 40 miles a day for four days, topped off his super-marathon by stopping at New York's World's Fair Grounds and playing his 601st hole on the stroke of midnight for publicity before continuing to Manhattan and a hotel bed at last...
Facing the tired and crippled Cubs in the World Series, opening at Chicago this week, are the slugging New York Yankees, who clinched the American League pennant (for the third consecutive year) fortnight ago. Although no club has ever won three World Series in a row, Manager Joe McCarthy's Yankees were last week quoted odds-on favorites...
...into the ring, are baited, stung, encouraged, wounded, sometimes left unscathed by a series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller have been among the weekly panel of guests. Matador Fadiman's banderillas are trick questions selected from some 60.000 sent in every week by listeners (reversing the usual procedure of experts...
...Often there are completely irrelevant skirmishes. John Gunther knew at once that Riza Pahlevi was Shah of Iran. Fadiman: "Are you shah?" Gunther: "Sultanly." Another time, Fadiman asked what four prominent women have the first names Marina, Elzire, Hepzibah, Farida. Marcus Duffield (day news editor of the New York Herald Tribune): "The name Elzire is familiar. ... As a matter of fact, I used to play Indians with her.'' Fadiman: "Well, you must have had a lot of fun. Elzire is Mrs. Dionne...