Word: doorknob
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Everything is geared to the average size of people 50 years ago. Look at the height of the average kitchen or bathroom sink, doorknob, table and the like. It is even difficult to find enough room in the front seat of many cars...
...Monday night, Oct. 13, Russel P. Pennoyer '73 sat alone in his room. He heard steps in the hallway, saw his doorknob turn slowly and found a young man in his late teens, over six feet tall, standing at the entrance...
...anything short of witchcraft to find the right putter. They experiment constantly, switching from wood shafts to glass, straight shafts to curved, aluminum heads to lead. In his heyday, Ben Hogan roamed the greens with a brass, center-shaft club the head of which was fashioned from an old doorknob. For a while Sam Snead tried putting between his legs, croquet style, with something that looked like an undernourished sledgehammer. Arnold Palmer prepares for a tournament by endlessly changing the grip and reweighting the head of his favorite putter. Gene Littler has been known to use a club he bought...
...open on schedule. Pandemonium also prevailed before the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, practically up to the hour that the flame was rekindled. Then, in a final frenetic burst of activity that the Japanese refer to as a kamikaze construction charge, the workers finished everything down to the last doorknob. The same is expected at Expo...
...entire Matthews South-Weld South game was played in a persistent drizzle. "The rain really slowed down our offense." said Matthews' Stan Mark, despite his team's production of 33 points. Jim Young described the playing field as "slipperier than snot on a doorknob...