Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a moneymaker. Others thought he had scrambled wholesale & retail together until nobody could find his way through either. Herberger blamed his troubles on deadwood in the company -and hacked away. So many officers and employees left that gagsters called Butler Bros, the Montgomery Ward annex. Finally, aging Thomas Freeman, who was boosted to chairman when Herberger replaced him as president, quit in disgust...
...Dana W. Freeman, Jr. '48 and Arthur C. Voudouris '46 will receive honorable mention in the same competition...
...Badminton. Since a Japanese American introduced him to badminton 14 years ago, Dave Freeman has been a talented athletic radical. After winning the National Junior Tennis Championship at 17 (he beat Ted Schroeder and Jake Kramer consistently in those days), he gave up big-time tennis because practicing bored him. Although he was besieged with athletic scholarships, he paid his own way to attend Pomona College, then went on to Harvard Medical School. Beginning in 1939, playing when the mood suited him and following no training rules, he was Mr. Badminton...
Last winter, in Britain for further study in neurology, Freeman got his first crack at Ooi Teik Hock in the Thomas Cup matches (badminton's equivalent of the Davis Cup). He beat the champ in what many a badminton fan thought to be a fluke win. Last week, after proving it was no fluke, Dave Freeman made an announcement: he was through with big-league tournament badminton. Henceforth he would play only...
...version of his life has been worn smooth from much handling; it is the classic, rather melancholy picture of the American literary man neglected by his time. It is also traditional and mildly touching, and it presents an image of the ideal man of letters just as Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee projects the ideal military man. Among U.S. academicians, it is cherished as the schoolboy once cherished Parson Weems's Life of Washington...