Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leader. In 1960, Arnold Palmer, now 30, has fulfilled his childhood promise: he is widely recognized as golf's top player. And he got that way by developing to a rare degree the same qualities he showed as a cocky kid on Latrobe's sixth tee. He still swings all out, still is confident he can make any shot, still is frankly ambitious, still loves to play for money...
...line up fat endorsements and a cooler in the auto trunk for baby's bottle. Less flamboyant than their predecessors, the new pro stars are nonetheless developing into distinct, colorful personalities who are drawing the galleries as well as the paychecks. And the gallery favorite by far is Arnold Palmer...
...Watch Me, Pap!" With such opposition, Arnold Palmer has need for every skill picked up in a lifetime of golf. He was raised, quite literally, on a golf course. His father, Milfred Jerome ("Deacon") Palmer, was greenskeeper and teaching pro at the club in Latrobe, 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. As a toddler, Arnie rode be tween his father's legs on the tractor-mower, romped in the rough, built castles in the sand traps. He was just seven when he talked his six-year-old sister Lois Jean into lugging around his heavy golf bag, went out one morning...
Predicting the winner of a major golf tournament is about as easy as scoring a hole in one. But before the 1960 Masters tournament at Augusta got under way, husky Arnold Palmer, 30, of Latrobe, Pa., was solidly established as the favorite.' Palmer had already won four tournaments this year. He had always played well in the Masters, winning in 1958 and finishing third last year. And the rambling (6,980 yds.) Augusta National Golf course seemed made to order for his long-hitting game. Said one pro: "On other courses a puffball hitter can get hot, but here...
...expected, there were suburban wails. Grumbled Westchester County Supervisor Arnold D. Roseman: "It's the rape of Westchester." Arthur T. Roth, chairman of the Franklin National Bank of Long Island and a bitter opponent of the bill, pointedly asked Governor Rockefeller whether "an eleventh-hour emergency plea issued on a bill that favors Chase Manhattan isn't a conflict of interest." Replied Rockefeller: he had sold his 18,000 Chase Manhattan shares last January...