Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stride, however, among the 16 survivors, were: 1) Poughkeepsie's Ray Billows, golf's handsome, glamorous, 25-year-old Cinderella Man, who got a toehold on golf fame in 1935 by driving to swank Winged Foot on the Sound in a $7 jalopy to win the New York State title; and 2) 26-year-old, icy-veined Marvin ("Bud") Ward, of Spokane, a golfers' golfer. Three years ago nobody had ever heard of him. Two years ago he lost to Johnny Goodman, one down, in the National Amateur semifinals, made the 1938 Walker Cup team...
...Smith,* 34, president of the American Musicological Society. Dr. Smith once studied the flute at the Paris Conservatoire, decided professional flute playing was too uncertain a job, though he had worked his way through Harvard by fluting at weddings, in theatres. Since 1931 Dr. Smith has headed the New York Public Library's music division, a clearing house for musical information used yearly by 50,000 people, from schoolgirls to Cecil B. DeMille...
...Broadway columnist, Danton Walker of the New York Daily News, reported his interview with an unnamed astrologer. Said Walker's oracle of Adolf Hitler: "His chart clearly shows him to be in the ever-tightening grip of a mental disorder. Neptune, the planet of imprisonment, treachery, insanity, assassination and suicide, is in his house of death...
...Little Old New York saloonkeeper's son, born in slummy Mulberry Bend, orphaned at seven, a runaway (from Father Drunogie's orphanage) in his 'teens, Joe Howard had been on the boards for 60 years. His runaway took him to St. Louis where, still in short pants, he got a job with McNish, Johnson & Slavin's Refined Minstrels, singing A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. This job was the making of him. He became a protege of the late, bully-built William Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring...
Lacking the heft he acquired later, Nicholas Murray Butler was rejected for crew and football at Columbia College† but played on the cricket team. Meanwhile, he edited the Acta Columbiana, taught in private schools, wrote for the New York Tribune, paid most of his expenses and finished college with $1,000 in the bank...