Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent issue of The New Yorker, Golf Expert Herbert Warren Wind recalls that it was in the spring of 1960 that Arnold Palmer "won the Masters tournament for the second time and established himself as a most exceptional golfer." And it was then that he made our cover (TIME, May 2. 1960). Last week the great man was challenged by a brilliant young competitor. Jack Nicklaus, 22, who becomes the subject of this week's cover, written by Sport Editor Charles Parmiter...
...Major Archibald Arnold Jr., 39, who helps train Vietnamese Civil Guard self-defense units. Father: Major General (ret.) Archibald V. Arnold, formerly chief of planning and training of the Army Field Forces...
...State), but he won last week's Open with a rare blend of mature skill and courage, withstanding pressures fierce enough to unnerve the most seasoned competitor. In a tense, head-to-head play-off before a hostile gallery, Nicklaus beat the world's best-known golfer, Arnold Palmer, grimly refusing to yield to a classic Palmer surge, and winning finally by the comfortable margin of three strokes, 71 to 74. To get into the playoff, Nicklaus had to defeat 148 top-ranked pros and amateurs, including Defending Open Champion Gene Littler. To beat them, he put together...
...Jack Nicklaus line of shirts and sweaters. Nicklaus has been signed for three TV golf shows, he will play a series of exhibitions (at a minimum of $2,000 each), and he is negotiating contracts for endorsements of slacks, walking shorts, sports jackets, windbreakers, shoes, cigarettes and skin bracer. Arnold Palmer, an old hand at such matters, has often complained that his extracurricular business activities leave him too little energy for playing championship-caliber golf, and youthful Jack Nicklaus is going to have to adjust to being a celebrity too. If he can, with at least a dozen good playing...
...Williamstown, Mass., chunky Phil Rodgers. then a University of Houston student, turned around and announced to the gallery: "I've got a hundred bucks says I'll win this thing." No one felt like betting, and Rodgers went on to win 8 and 7. To these youngsters, Arnold Palmer is no bogey man, but just another pro trying to take money out of their pockets. Says Jack Nicklaus: "Arnie's not that much better than anyone else. Everybody thinks Palmer will win, and he has come from behind often enough so that pretty soon the player facing...