Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arnold Palmer, U.S. Open and Masters champion, was a heavy 3-1 choice to win: aging Ben Hogan and ageless Sam Snead were the sentimental favorites. The oddsmakers failed to figure the crushing impact of the course-or that Jay Hebert was overdue...
...Arnold O. Beckman, 60, is a former assistant professor of chemistry at California Institute of Technology who did a friend a favor by making a "pH" meter to test the acidity of lemon juice, set up shop in a garage in 1935 to manufacture them for industrial testing purposes. The small beginning grew into Beckman Instruments, which now has sales of $45 million, makes analytical instruments. Beckman owns 37% of his company's 1,380,000 shares, which is now worth $44.9 million...
...Towbin: "We've made 30 to 40 millionaires"-including himself. Wealth has worked no great change in the lives of most of the new executive millionaires. They are a new breed too interested either in their companies or in scientific research to indulge themselves with their new fortunes. Arnold Beckman and his wife, for example, still live in an Altadena house he built in 1933 while teaching at Caltech...
...Arnold Palmer had conquered the fateful Road Hole, but it was too late. Steady Kel Nagle held on to win the 1960 British Open by a single stroke. Said Palmer later: "I blew it on that doggoned 17th...
Doggone. Still four strokes behind Australia's Nagle at the end of the final day's first nine holes, Arnold Palmer summoned his strength for a last-ditch effort. He birdied the 13th, gained a stroke. As Nagle faltered, Palmer came to the Road Hole-and overshot the green with his second stroke. But he pitched back to within 4 ft. of the pin, calmly canned his putt for-at long last-a birdie...