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...wits. His fellow pros say that he doesn't play greens-"he thinks them." Before every tee shot, he selects the exact spot where he wants his ball to stop rolling; he expects to come very close. From each of his clubs he exacts similar standard ranges (see chart). Between shots, as he walks briskly along the fairway, Hogan's mind is working ahead. Heading for a second shot on one hole, he will crane to see where the pin has been spotted on a nearby green still to be played (pins are moved every day in tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...management came off better in the third round than it had in the first two. Unions generally ended up accepting just about what management had offered in the first place (average increase: 5% an hour). The average weekly wage rose about 6% during the year to about $54.65 (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The New Frontiers | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Last month, for instance, Kahn and some 40 associates hooked up with Duke University for a clairvoyance experiment. A huge chart of symbols was tacked up at 5 p.m. every day in Durham, North Carolina, and starting at 5 p.m. the Harvard crew tried to reproduce the symbols on post cards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Society Hurls Dice, Grows Plants in Psychic Research | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

Last week the council had ready a 5½-page preliminary report, mainly general recommendations and a chart of the council's future activity. Most important was a provision for British workers of all grades to visit notably efficient plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flurry | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...German editions, Stalingrad has sold more than a million copies. It is not likely to make such a dent in the U.S., because it is directed to the Germans. It calls itself a novel-but, in essence, it is not a novel at all; it is an enormous chart of case histories in a world of mass horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Epistle to the Germans | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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