Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...performance was a disappointment for the Crimson, which had even thought first place was within reach. Royce Shaw dropped out in the middle of the course, and almost every other man on the squad ran a below-par race, Keith Colburn did well, however, finishing third...
...writers need a flaw, a "charismic weakness." Often that weakness is drinking. "You're a rummy, but no more than most good writers are," Ernest Hemingway told Scott Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald himself called alcohol the "writer's vice." Now, through a study of Fitzgerald as "an alcoholic par excellence," Washington University Psychiatrist Donald W. Goodwin has attempted to explain the remarkable statistics about the drinking habits of well-known American writers of the past century: a third to a half were alcoholic; of six Americans awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, four (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis...
...Passport. The prep schools' competition is improving, and some of it is free. Suburban public high schools, especially in well-to-do areas that many potential boarding-school students call home, are now often on an academic par with boarding schools. For this reason, and because the admission policies of colleges have changed, a boarding-school diploma is no longer pursued simply as an Ivy League passport...
...seventh hole, a 385-yd. par four, Stockton chose a wedge for his second shot, lofted a lovely 120-yd. pitch to the green: the ball hit a foot beyond the cup and took a backward hop in for an impossible eagle two. On the ninth hole, another tough par four, he blasted a six-iron approach out of a bunker and through some branches 158 yds. to a green he could not even see; the ball rolled dead two feet from the hole, and he had a birdie three. On the 13th, Stockton's second shot splashed into...
Accident in the Surf. The P.G.A. victory marked the end of a long, uphill fight for Stockton. The son of a former amateur champ and teaching pro, Dave picked up his first club at the age of three, was a serious, par-shooting golfer at 15. Then came a near disaster. A surfing accident left Stockton with six cracked vertebrae, and for a while it was doubtful that he would be able to engage in any sport, much less championship golf. The back eventually healed, but he has had to avoid contact sports and now wears a half-inch lift...