Word: hogan
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...year of impossible dreams fulfilled and operatic passions played out, of fantastic athletic achievement stunning for what it was and stunning for what it meant. When Ben Hogan won three of golf's four major tournaments in 1953, some said it would never be done again. Had you wagered that the next player to do it would be a young American of eclectically mixed race--a bit of white, a bit of black, a lot of Asian--then you would have walked off the course with cash worth counting...
...didn't he do? Well, he didn't win the Masters in April. But he won the U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes, the British Open by eight and the PGA in a playoff, becoming the first to win three of four majors in a season since Ben Hogan in 1953, and the youngest ever to complete a career grand slam...
DIED. WERNER KLEMPERER, 80, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who won two Emmys for his portrayal of the bumbling Nazi prison-camp commandant Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes; in New York City. After the prime-time series ended in 1971, he worked as an orchestral narrator with nearly every major U.S. symphony orchestra, and was nominated for a Tony in 1988 for his role as Jewish shopkeeper Herr Schultz in a revival of Cabaret...
...started with the thunder of hooves. Spurred by the cavalry - 120 Akubraed riders, including Paul Hogan - the Opening Ceremonies were a rip-snorter. The set piece was wonderful, the best since that bizarre Albertville stuff in 1992. The lawn mowers and dancing boxes were a lot of fun. During the parade of nations, the crowd leapt up on three occasions: when the Koreas marched in together, when Victor Ramos of East Timor entered carrying the flag for unaffiliated Olympians (that Australia didn't intervene sooner in the Timorese tragedy represents, for many Australians, a great human rights failing) and when...
...Ceremonies, I mean it was totally political! Midnight Oil singing "Beds Are Burning," Yothu Yindi singing "Treaty" - singing these songs right into John Howard's reddening face. And then that Parade of Icons: wacky, wacky, wacky! On floats, they had Greg Norman hitting golf balls into the crowd, Paul Hogan whip- cracking a bunch of prawns - a school of prawns? What do prawns travel in? - bicycles! Elle Macpherson taking her clothes off and Priscilla Queen of the Desert attended by scores of drag queens. So, then: an old golfer who can't win anymore; an old comedian who no longer...