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...recalls, adding with a slightly acid touch: "And I was putting them all out that day, toe." Palmer also fell into the habit of acting out a dream of the future by describing his play aloud to an empty green: "Arnold Palmer now lines up a putt on the 36th hole. He pauses. The gallery is quiet. He hits it and it's in. Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is the new U.S. Amateur champion...
When he was discharged in 1954, Palmer went for the big time in the U.S. Amateur. Playing in the finals against onetime British Amateur Champion Bob Sweeny, Palmer rolled a soft, putt dead just three inches from the pin on the 36th green for the shot that won the match. At long last, the childhood fancy was fact: the announcers were saying that Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pa. was the new U.S. Amateur champion...
TRYING to keep up with Pat Nixon last week, the Washington bureau's Burt Meyers reflected that the wife of the 36th Vice President was certainly the fastest-moving second lady. Doing his homework for this week's cover story, Correspondent Meyers discovered some interesting facts about Pat Nixon's predecessors...
Swinging with smooth power, canning his putts with authority, Nicklaus caught Coe on the 21st hole. Going into the 36th, the exhausted Coe and the confident Nicklaus were still tied. The sun was down, and the greens had slowed when Coe chipped for the cup out of a grassed bunker. Normally, the ball would have rolled in, but in the dampening grass it stopped inches away. Nicklaus conferred briefly with 16-year-old Caddy Bob Valdes ("Best greens reader we've got," said Club Pro Ed Dudley). Then Nicklaus took his new putter and sank his eight-footer...
...worth of art in the 20 years before his death in 1913, but he was no spendthrift. The same collection today might well command ten times what he paid for it. His Renaissance library is now one of Manhattan's handsomest small museums. Author Saarinen calls the place (36th Street and Madison Avenue) "restrained, not opulent; exquisite, not ostentatious. The East Room is regal with lapis lazuli columns flanking the fireplace and with a Flemish 16th century tapestry above it. What unconscious impulse of guilt or pride determined the choice of this particular weaving? It represents The Triumph...