Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little man," said ex-Open Champion Lloyd Mangrum, "is the only one in golf I've ever feared." The little man was Texas Ben Hogan, hitting the comeback trail after a near-fatal auto accident last year (TIME, Feb. 14, 1949). After the first round of the National Open last week, Ben Hogan was trailing eight strokes behind an unknown, unemployed 26-year-old pro from Birmingham named Lee Mackey Jr., who had burned up the course with a record-breaking six-under...
...summoned FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers to hear their stories. Why had Hitchcock made the "deal?" His explanation was that Justice lawyers had suddenly had qualms about the legality of their evidence. They were afraid that the argument might be made that the Government had got on the trail of the stolen documents by illegal means. They were afraid the Government might end up without any convictions. An FBI agent said flatly: "The FBI secured no documents through any means . . . except incident to arrest. They were all legally obtained." Why had Justice lawyers pressed the espionage charge...
Director William Wellman, now with MGM, grimly recalls a hunting trip with Zanuck in British Columbia: "You had to shake the porcupines out of the trees at night. It snowed. We had to break trail for the horses. We were snowbound for three days. Zanuck chased a grizzly for 30 hours, came back with a sprained ankle. We made 20 separate fords. We lost the horse carrying our medicine. I got blood poisoning. It was the ruggedest, damndest trip you've ever seen. But d'you know what? Zanuck loved...
...could not afford to nurse his car along for all of those 50 miles. On the ninth lap, he rammed the foot throttle down and skittered into the lead, past Veteran Mauri Rose, three-time winner of the race, who pounded along doggedly in Johnnie's exhaust trail-a nauseous compound of burned benzol, alcohol and 100-octane aircraft gasoline. Said Parsons later: "I saw my chance and I wanted some of that lap money"-$100 for the leader of each 2½-mile circuit...
...vanguard party of two will fly to Lima this morning. The rest will follow on Thursday, June 22. When they split up, they agreed to meet "at the street corner" on June 23--the corner of the dirt road from Paramonga to Huares and a mule trail to the Indian village of Chiquian...