Word: also-rans
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...Arnold Palmer did not really rate a place in the four-man competition that is for winners of the P.G.A. and Masters (Nicklaus), the U.S. Open (Julius Boros), and the British Open (Bob Charles). "Arnie shouldn't be here," joked Nicklaus. "After all, he was an also-ran." He kicked Arnie's chair, and everyone laughed self-consciously. But next morning the headlines screamed: JACK LABELS ARNIE AN "ALSO-RAN...
Divorced. By Wilma Rudolph, 22, Olympic track star and world record holder: William Ward, 25, onetime also-ran half-miler at Tennessee State, where Wilma received her B.S. last week; after 17 months of marriage; in Nashville...
Last week the suspense was scheduled to end. In Swan Lake, the two visitors brought the house down. Then, for an audience starring the President's wife, one ex-President's daughter (Margaret Truman Daniel), and one presidential also-ran (Adlai Stevenson), Hurok presented Fonteyn and Nureyev together in the U.S. premiere of Marguerite and Armand, the latest version of Camille...
...picked until after next month's final elimination trials. But in the first "observation" trials, two boats came out clear-cut favorites: Ted Hood's buxom $300,000 Nefertiti, the glamour boat of the warmup trials, with ten wins and only two defeats; and Weatherly, an also-ran in the 1958 cup trials, which finally found her speed with canny Skipper Bus Mosbacher (TIME. July 13) at the helm. Even Nefertiti's butter-fingered crew could not seem to slow her down. In one race they fumbled a spinnaker overboard in their haste to get it flying...
...record. If he cannot within half an hour, "I'll pack up and quit. I've got too much pride to race as an also-ran...