Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old kid from Georgia waited politely while his opponent for the next day's finals of the 1958 National Amateur golf championship toiled up the steep climb from the 18th hole. "I'm Tommy Aaron, Mr. Coe," he said. "I'm going to play you tomorrow...
...Tommy Aaron, playing in his first National Amateur, the week was as refreshing as a breeze off the nearby Pacific. Virtually unknown outside of the South, the University of Florida senior had nothing to lose and everything to win, and he played that way. Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), he banged out drives of 250 yds., canned his putts with ease and never trailed an opponent, including Quarter Finalist Dick Chapman, former U.S. (1940) and British (1951) Amateur champ. "The greens are like billiard tables," chuckled Tommy. "All you have to do is start the ball...
When young Aaron started the ball rolling the next day in the finals, he looked like a winner. He was two up after eleven holes. Coe confessed to being "mentally fatigued" and looked worn-out physically. But Charlie Coe has the stuff of a champ. Doggedly he put his swing back in joint, and poured on the pressure. By the 26th hole, the Georgia kid was three-putting greens, wallowing in sand-traps, ricocheting off trees. Coe eased his aching bones home to win, 5 and 4, by dropping a 25-ft. putt on the 32nd green...
...printed in black. That week, because the background (an inky sky for a space design) was black, the letters were printed in white. Since then the logotype has been printed at times in red, blue or yellow. This week's four-color TIME was conceived by Cover Artist Aaron Bohrod, who made the logotype an integral part of the cover painting, and hung from it some of the symbols that he often uses to give added dimension to his work.* Bohrod's bright, tuneful "Music Man" conveys the spirit of Broadway's biggest hit, which is sending...
...Crandall, Milwaukee (.280) 1b. Stan Musial, St. Louis (.351) 2b. Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh (.278) 3b. Frank Thomas. Pittsburgh (.296) ss. Ernie Banks, Chicago (.302) If. Bob Skinner, Pittsburgh (.324) cf. Willie Mays, San Francisco (.373) rf. Hank Aaron, Milwaukee...