Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news that the country was eager for, he told nothing. Names of ships and dates were out, he said. He would not even say how long or how often he had conferred with Churchill. All he could and would say was that he had been aboard the cruiser Augusta and Churchill aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales. The only scene on which he was willing to dwell was the Sunday morning church service held on the fantail of the Prince of Wales, the fraternizing of the British tars and U.S. bluejackets, the mingling of American and British uniforms-the scene that...
...Meeting. The story of the meeting came to the U.S. press bit by bit, mostly from British sources. The 9,050-ton Augusta with its large escort of cruisers and destroyers, the 35,000-ton Prince of Wales with its own numerous escorts-together a fleet large enough to fight a major sea battle if an enemy appeared-rendezvoused on the North Atlantic coast...
...first meeting Mr. Churchill boarded the Augusta, moving jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...
...sport stars: Football's Sammy Baugh, Baseball's Dizzy Dean, Tennis' Wilmer Allison. But when it comes to golf, the Lone Star State has no lone star but a little dipper full: Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Harry Cooper. In the Augusta Masters last year, Texans finished...
Unlike baseball's Immortals, golf's deities are all still hale & hearty. Last fortnight all four could be seen competing in the Masters Tournament at Augusta. Attorney Jones, 39 (winner of four U.S. Opens, five U.S. Amateurs, three British Opens, one British Amateur), finished 40th in a field of 47. Farmer Gene Sarazen, still going strong after 20 years of big-time golf, turned in 297 (for four rounds), ten strokes better than Jones's card but 17 behind Craig Wood's winning score. Walter Hagen and Francis Ouimet, both nearing 50 and too busy chasing...