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...gimme four more years," he says, "at $100,000 a year, and Snead will have made it." But before he turns in his clubs, Snead still has one deep desire: to win his first Open. He has been acting very much like a man who expected to win. In Augusta (TIME, April 19), he won the Masters, defeating his old bogey Hogan in a brilliant play-off.- And at the Palm Beach tournament in May, he won with a sizzling 338 for five rounds. Recently, he sent in his entry for the British Open in July-obviously...
...weeks later Harris attacked the editors in his weekly newspaper in Augusta, naming them "a little handful of sissies, and misguided squirts." He called them perverts and Communists, saying "... the time has come to clear out all of these institutions of all Communist influences and the crazy idea of mixing and mingling of the races which was sponsored in this country by the Communist party...
When she was only five years old, the collector's passion seized Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Princess of Teck. She began hoarding Christmas cards, and throughout a long and energetic life as Britain's Queen Mary, she kept collecting. Before her death last year at the age of 85, she had assembled one of the most splendiferous royal collections of objets d'art in history...
After the game, Ike and Mamie drove to National Airport where the presidential plane Columbine was standing by to take the President to his favorite retreat at the Augusta National Golf Club for an Easter vacation. The plane landed in Georgia two hours later. For two days April rains hampered Ike's golfing, but at last the sun came out and the President was able to play with a new partner: Lumber Salesman Billy Jo Patton, the sensational amateur from Morgantown, N.C., who finished third, right behind Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, in the recent Masters Tournament. Patton returned...
...Master saw it, this year's Masters' golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. would separate the men from the boys. And the boys, said 1935's Winner Gene Sarazen, "are going to make us old-timers look like dubs . . . They'll set up scoring marks we never thought of." For a couple of grey and rainy days last week, Oldtimer Sarazen had the look of a prophet. Billy Joe Patton, 31, a drawling lumberman from Morganton, N.C., fired a fine 144 on the first 36 holes and came up to the halfway mark one stroke ahead...