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Murdoch is no absentee press lord. His home is now New York City, but he spends much of his time traveling among his far-flung operations. While he may rely on his two chief lieutenants, Richard Sarazen and Martin Singerman, for handling financial matters and administrative details, the one in charge is Murdoch. Says Investment Banker Veronis of the Triangle deal: "At our first meeting, he carefully picked up each publication, and we talked about the content and the market that the publication reached. There are very few people who are editorially astute and who have a penchant to learn...
Sixty years ago, Bobby Jones never mentioned dispersion factors. He kissed his putter and called her Calamity Jane. "Sixty years ago," says Gene Sarazen, still slickered down and knickered up and still playing golf at 86, "I had a rotten grip. If you ask me, that's why there are so many excellent players today. A good grip is like a solid hinge on an oak door." Sarazen goes back to hickory sticks that required shellacking in the rain, and is amused by the '80s fashion, which encompasses titanium shafts, tungsten fibers, beryllium-copper, manganese-bronze and high-modulus graphite...
...dramatically drew to even par with an eagle on the next hole a la Gene Sarazen in the 1935 Masters. After crunching his drive on the downwind par five, he ripped a five iron onto the green and proceeded to kill a rattler when he snaked home a 40-ft. putt...
...Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Julius Boros, Jack Burke Jr., Doug Ford. Their names are engraved on the winners' trophies of nearly 200 major golf tournaments. Together they have won four U.S. Open tournaments, nine P.G.A. Championships, six Masters and two British Open titles. They are enshrined in the Professional Golfers Association's Hall of Fame. Last week they added their names to a list of plaintiffs suing the P.G.A. Tour in state district court in Houston...
...attempt to weed out the few hangers-on, the rule change penalizes many still competent golfers. And in the future, it could deny fans the thrill of watching Snead's flawless swing or Boros' stylish shotmaking. Gone too would be the joy simply of seeing a Gene Sarazen stride across a golf course...