Word: golfer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...noon stepped out on the White House lawn, crowded with some 6,000 well-wishers who chorused Happy Birthday, as Mamie watched from a balcony. Some of his admirers presented him with a golf ball and tees, done up in a box inscribed to the "World's Greatest Golfer...
...station. the counter on Dr. Anderson's gun clicked off the 500,00cth shot that he and his corpsmen have given in the past six years. Soon after, Dr. Anderson had to quit and let a corpsman relieve him; the trigger ringer on his right hand, despite a golfer's glove, was too painfully blistered for him to carry...
...sighed, "that was agony!" By the slim margin of a single stroke-the dinky putt that Joyce Ziske missed-beaming, Carolina-born Betsy Rawls, 32, had won her fourth U.S. Women's Open, adding 1960 to her victories in 1951, 1953 and 1957. No woman golfer, not even the incomparable Babe Didrikson Zaharias,* had done that before...
...victory, worth $1,800 was sweet for Betsy. An erratic player who, at her scrambling best, is the most exciting female golfer in the world, she was last year's leading money winner (with a record $26,760) on the women's tour, has been a topflight pro ever since she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Texas in 1950. Taut and moody on the golf course, Betsy lugs a portable phonograph with her on the tour, relaxes between rounds with Wagnerian opera. This season, Betsy had been in a frustrating slump...
...five, whose hazards include a deeply trapped green, a stone wall, a road, and a cluster of barns that mask the green from the tee. Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pa., whose flaming finishes won this year's Masters and U.S. Open tournaments, is the world's best golfer, one who could be expected to handle even the "Road Hole." Last week in the British Open, Palmer and the Road Hole fought a tense four-day duel. Palmer mastered the famed 17th-but not until after it had cost him his chance for golfing's grand slam...