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56      CURRENT BIOGRAPHY

DUNNOCK, MILDRED––Continued

Besides The Corn is Green and Death of a Salesman Miss Dunnock's work before the Hollywood cameras has included the role of a lady doctor in The Girl in White, I Want You, and in 1952 the Warner Brothers remake of The Jazz Singer, starring Danny Thomas, in which she played the Orthodox Jewish mother.  When 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation made a film, Kiss of Death, photographed on the streets of New York, Miss Dunnock played the role of a woman in a wheel chair.

Miss Dunnock has made frequent appearances on such television shows as The Web, Suspense, Omnibus and Inner Sanctum.  One of her widely acclaimed performances was on the Kraft Television Theatre when she played on May 13, 1954, with Carmen Mathews, in Greer Johnson's The Worried Songbirds.  Another outstanding performance was with Betty Field in Hide and Seek on the Philco Playhouse on February 7, 1954.

Offstage, with the drab wigs removed, Miss Dunnock has "dark waving hair, an extremely attractive, animated face and large dark eyes" (William Hawkins, New York World-Telegram, April 2, 1947).  She is five feet six inches tall.  For relaxation she likes to do needle point.  She is fond of old houses and china.  Miss Dunnock is married to Keith Urmy, who is in the banking business.  Their sixteen-year-old daughter, Linda, attends Milton Academy.  They have an apartment in Manhattan and a country home in Pound Ridge in Westchester County, New York.

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FLECK, JACK Nov. 8, 1922- Professional golfer
Address: 917 Iowa St., Davenport, Ia.

In the 55th National Open Golf Championship held during June 1955 an unknown player, Jack Fleck, tied Ben Hogan, four-time winner of the tournament, and in the play-off won the championship by three strokes on the difficult Olympic Club course in San Francisco.  Fleck carded a one-under-par 69 score on the last round before a crowd of over 70,000, taking the title from the Open Champion, Ed Furgol.

The young professional golfer, who had never before won a major tournament, was a guest at the White House on July 11 along with other sports celebrities at which President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a program to get more young Americans interested in athletics to improve physical standards and to help curb juvenile delinquency.

John Fleck was born on November 8, 1922 in Bettendorf, Iowa, one of the five children of Louis Fleck. His father lost his truck farm in the late 1920's, and Jack worked on a daily paper route to help out financially.  Jack recalls that when the Western Open was held in Davenport (a city five miles from Bettendorf) in 1936, he "snuck in with some other kids, but they chased us.  But I saw enough to like what I saw."

[[image: photo of golfer with crowd watching him swing]]
[[caption]] JACK FLECK [[/caption]]
[[photo credit]] Wide World [[/photo credit]]

At the age of fifteen he started to caddy at the Davenport Country Club and was allowed to play each Monday, caddy's day.  On the other days he played sand-lot golf. He stroked an 89 in his first caddy championship, using borrowed clubs.

In Davenport High School he was top man on the golf team and immediately after graduation he turned professional.  Discontent with the factory jobs into which his father had urged him, he took a job in Des Moines as an assistant pro, a club cleaner actually.  He enlisted in the Navy in 1942, and was on the Utah beach head in Normandy on D-Day.

After he was released from service in 1945, he received appointment to the two municipal golf shops at Duck Creek and Credit Island golf courses in Davenport.  In 1950 he married and was able to continue his golf playing through his wife's encouragement and aid (she managed the golf shops while he was on tour).

Entering local tournaments, he was among the prize winners at one held in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1949 and at Miami, Florida in 1951.  In the National Open he failed to qualify for the last thirty-six holes in 1950, and in 1953, he finished fifty-second.  He won the Waterloo (Iowa) open in 1953, the Rochester (Minnesota) open in 1954, and finished eighth place in the 1954 Celebrities tournament in Washington, D.C.  Prior to winning the National Open, Fleck had won $2,700 for his play during 1955 on the tournament circuit.

Qualifying for the National Open tournament held in San Francisco in June 1955, Fleck knew that Ben Hogan was favored to win (despite the veteran's limp due to an old