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President and Senator have played golf together at Burning Tree, and the President invited Taft to fly to Georgia this week for a golf holiday at the Augusta National Golf Club. Taft's great respect for the presidency still causes him to address his friend as "Mr. President," even on the goll course. But the President has taken to calling the majority leader "Bob." All this does not mean that Eisenhower and Taft will have no differences in the future; it does mean that their relationship is firm enough not to be destroyed by differences...
...Augusta National Golf Course, with its carpet-smooth greens, lush fairways and pitfall traps, was in fine shape for the Masters golf tournament. So were the Masters. The day before the tournament started, Lloyd Mangrum, golf's leading moneywinner, broke his own course record with a sensational 63, nine strokes under par. Defending Champion Sam Snead, who took the title away from Ben Hogan, fired a fine 71. U.S. Open Champion Julius Boros, who took that title away from Hogan in 1952, was at the peak of his game with...
...some 10,000 with his fairway-splitting shots. The ahs changed to outright cheers on the ninth green when golfdom's mechanical man, after careful sighting, crisply stroked a 60-ft. putt into the cup for an outgoing four-under-par 32. The word that went around the Augusta gallery...
Eisenhower has shown almost as much finesse by posing, with that smile, beside mothers, infants, and Bobby Jones. One might say he fully utilizes his "just another nice old guy" appeal by frequently appearing at social functions in Augusta...
...Series will have the Yankees facing the Dodgers again this fall. . . Harvard's subsidiary, the St. Louis Cardinals, bought Sportsman's Park from the Browns. . . Chick Harbert fired a four-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead in the first round of the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia...