Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Into Augusta, Ga. by chartered airplane last week flew a ten-man delegation from the Republican National Committee for a conclave about as suspenseful as an American League pennant race. At the Augusta National Golf Club the travelers were welcomed by a tanning and smiling Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, sat down for lunch with the President in the whitebrick, four-pillared Mamie's Cabin near Augusta's tenth fairway. Over lunch the group got down to business. Connecticut's Meade Alcorn was retiring as national chairman (TIME, April 13), Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton...
...AUGUSTA, Ga., April 15--Cancer forced John Foster Dulles to resign today as Secretary of State...
...putting touch and scoring five birdies on the last six holes, Art Wall Jr., saturnine, 35-year-old golf pro from Pocono Manor, Pa. who has been the hottest golfer on the early spring circuit, came from nowhere in the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. He overhauled the leaders with a six-under-par final round of 66. Arnold Palmer, last year's Masters champion, who tied for the lead with Canada's Stan Leonard at the end of the third round, triple-bogied the treacherous twelfth hole, narrowly missed two short putts...
...first time in seven years President Eisenhower will not be on hand to throw out the season's first ball today when the unpromising Washington Senators face the Baltimore Orioles in the Presidential opener in Washington. Busy at his golfing retreat in Augusta, Ga., Ike has deputized Vice-President Nixon to perform...
President Eisenhower, who had played no golf in two weeks, arrived in Augusta Tuesday, and reportedly is planning to play and stay for about two weeks. The President went directly from his plane to the Augusta National Golf Club fairways, where the Masters Tournament was completed two days earlier and where a special cottage is kept for his use. According to reliable sources, he is hitting the ball well...