Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up." Nobody heard much about him until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says, of that case of typhoid fever. He came down with it 14 years ago, just when he was beginning to go places as a young fighter. "I could always punch," he is quick to say. But the fever left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after living on relief, he made a try at a comeback, finally quit because he could make more money...
...finished it by sinking a six-footer-then flipped the ball casually to an admiring youngster and strode into the clubhouse. His score of 276 chopped five strokes off the U.S. Open record (Ralph Guldahl's 281 at Michigan's Oakland Hills Country Club eleven years ago). The runner-up: fancy-pants Jimmy Demaret, last year's top money winner...
...since chunky Gene Sarazen did it 26 years ago had a golfer won the P.G.A. and the Open the same summer. It looked as if big-time golf had again found a man it could call champion...
...Voice) smuggled papers into Budapest, and 2) Népszava's staff, a Who's Who of the Hungarians Moscow hates most. Editor in chief was Zoltan Pfeiffer, head of the Independence Party in the coalition government that was squeezed out by the Reds a year ago. Ferenc Nagy (rhymes with dodge), ex-Premier and leader of the Smallholders Party, now a small holder (130 acres) in Virginia, was a contributing editor. Others : Exile Tibor Eckhardt, onetime head of the U.S. "Free Hungarian" movement; Charles Peyer, right-wing Socialist leader...
...month ago, when NBC refused to give him a raise, Frank Paris, Howdy's builder and manipulator, huffed out of the studio with Puppet Howdy under his arm. For awhile, the program's fate dangled by a marionette string. But M.C. Bob Smith still owned Howdy's name and voice, and NBC still had Smith. So, while a West Coast puppetmaker hurriedly whittled a new $2,000 marionette, harried Announcer Smith fenced with his young audience and concocted desperate excuses for the puppet's absence: Howdy was invisible, he was on a "presidential campaign tour...