American Trailblazers A Celebration Of All The Forgotten Firsts – Paul Martin (1)

Unfortunately, Zaharias’s outsize personality tended to grate on her opponents. She could be ruthless and manipulating when it came to winning. Aware of her popularity, she made cracks like, “Where I go, the galleries go.” Strolling into the locker room before a tournament, she would loudly announce, “The Babe’s here!

Who’s gonna finish second?” Not sentiments to endear you to your fellow golfers. But she also had an earthy, profane sense of humor. Whenever people asked her how a slender female golfer could unleash such powerful shots, she replied, “I just loosen my girdle and let it fly,” a nifty catchphrase that predated bomber John Daly’s mantra of “Grip it and rip it” by fifty years.

In 1950, Zaharias stole the show with eight victories while becoming the first woman to win all three majors—the Western Open, Titleholders, and U.S. Women’s Open—in the same year. In 1951, she blistered the tour with nine more wins, and in 1952, she won five tournaments, including another Titleholders. She seemed unstoppable, but in 1953, this high-flying athlete crashed to earth. Diagnosed with rectal cancer, she underwent a colostomy.

It looked like she’d never play again, but she bounced back to win five more titles in 1954, including her third Women’s Open, which she won by twelve strokes. Off the course, she raised funds for cancer treatment and research. Her victories gave hope to other cancer victims. Zaharias’s last two wins came in 1955.

Following her victory in the Peach Blossom Classic, severe pain in her lower back indicated that her cancer had returned. She accepted the news that the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes with equanimity. “Well, that’s the rub of the greens,” she told her sobbing husband.

She died in a Galveston, Texas, hospital on September 27, 1956. President Dwight D.

Cover illustration: A River Path, chromolithograph from a watercolor study by Louis K. Harlow. Copyright 1888 by L. Prang & Co. Boston. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-12155. Cover design by Moboyo ISBN-13: 978-1979984270 ISBN-10: 1979984271 1kitap1.com/en Contents Introduction Culture and Society 1. Martyr to Her Faith 2. Balladeer of the Colonies 3. America’s First Heartthrob 4. Extra! Extra! Read All About It! 5. A Strange Sort of Merriment 6. The Other Father of Baseball 7. Captain Courageous 8. A Singular Samaritan 9. The Forgotten Hero 10.

The Contrary Chameleon 11. The Courtroom and the Badge 12. Reaching the Heights 13. Odyssey of the Children 14. The Ultimate Babe 15. Bridge Between Two Cultures 16. Queen of Toyland Science and Industry 17. Revolutionary Spook 18. Window Into the Body 19. Banishing Our Pain 20. Beholder of the Heavens 21. Keeping It Fresh 22. From the Ground Up 23.

Thank You, Mr. Wellcome 24. The Wizard of Laramie 25. Madam President 26. Takin’ It to the Street 27. The Age of Plastics 28. The Angel That Fell from the Sky 29. Chemical Detective 30. Pictures Through the Air 31. The Pugnacious Pigeons 32. Masters of the Machine Acknowledgments 1kitap1.com/en A Introduction mong the most fascinating figures from America’s past are the men and women who performed some singular feat that’s been completely overlooked or that gets only a bare mention in today’s history books.

Like my first collection of biographical profiles—Secret Heroes: Everyday Americans Who Shaped Our World—this work celebrates a few of these remarkable characters, a group of mostly lesser-known Americans who left an enduring imprint on their time through their milestone innovations or inspirational accomplishments. The men and women profiled in American Trailblazers come from every period in our nation’s history and all walks of life—from humanitarians, adventurers, and entertainers to political figures, inventors, and entrepreneurs. However, what really makes these people worthy of note are their memorable life stories.

Many of these individuals could be deemed heroes, others colorful iconoclasts. One or two might even be considered controversial, although their attainments were important nonetheless. I’ve organized the characters into two groups representing the fields in which they excelled—Culture and Society or Science and Industry.

Among those featured is fearless Quaker housewife Mary Dyer, who was hanged in Massachusetts in 1660 while fighting for religious freedom. There’s Boston teacher James Lovell, a long-standing member of the Continental Congress who helped America win the Revolutionary War by serving as the country’s first expert on codes and ciphers.

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