Golfing legend
25 years ago: 1991
It was the kind of sendoff the guy with the big nose, the big heart and the big dream would have loved. The house was packed and a group of children sang. What Danny Thomas would have loved most about it was the promise his family and friends made to carry on his most important work and make St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital even bigger and better. It was the last hurrah for the popular entertainer, who died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., where two former presidents and a string of show business personalities paid their respects before his body was flown to Memphis for final rites and burial.
50 years ago: 1966
The city tentatively plans to start razing the Main Fire Station at Union and Front on April 1 to make way for a new headquarters. Fire and Police Commissioner Claude A. Armour said bids have been sought on the $650,000$ 700,000 project, and a contract is expected to be awarded next month. The contract will cover both the demolition of the present headquarters building, which dates from 1889, and the construction of the new twolevel, concrete, steel and glass structure.
75 years ago: 1941
Mr. and Mrs. George Tayloe will leave this week to visit Mr. Tayloe’s sister, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the United States Mint in Washington. They will also visit New York.
100 years ago: 1916
The cooking class of the Nineteenth Dr. Cary Middlecoff( right ), now being called the world’s No. 1 golfer by many discerning critics, is put ting his views on the game in a book to be published by Prentice-Hall of New York. Editing the material for Car y on Feb. 11, 1956, is Tom Michael, night cit y editor for The Commercial Appeal, and amateur golfer. The scene of their creative labor is the den of Car y’s home at 460 Greenfield Road. Century Club, of which Miss Mary Rose Edgington is chairman, will meet this morning to prepare and serve spaghetti, spinach cooked without water, sweet potato pudding baked in a glass dish, lemon pie, raisin pie and muffins.
125 years ago: 1891
The last festival of the ecclesiastical year, Shrove Tuesday, was celebrated yesterday and today will begin the Lenten season of penance and sacrifice.