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Texas' Ben Hogan had won all but one of golf's top prizes in the most spectacular career since that of Bobby Jones. The one that eluded Ben nine times in the last 13 years is the Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga., founded by the old master, Bobby Jones himself. Last week little (133 Ibs.) Ben Hogan, almost ready to retire at 38, tried again...
THEY WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED." Thundered the ancient Augusta Chronicle: "Demagogues and dictators always make it one of their first goals to dissolve the free press, the better to hide their evil and their arrogance . . . This campaign against the newspapers is part of an overall plan to establish a political dictatorship...
...outskirts of the project, towns and cities like Aiken, S.C. and Augusta, Ga. set to counting the blessings that would flow when upwards of 25,000 employees went, to work at the giant H-bomb plant. Aiken, which has a population of 7,000 and has been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving...
...could be seen spraddled in a front-row seat, while the people's representatives hurried up to him to hear his wishes. With one exception, no Georgia governor since 1936 had been elected without Roy's help. All the time Roy was in the law business in Augusta, and it never seemed to matter to him who the candidate was. The important thing was that he won; Roy's firm got a lot of business from people who dealt with state agencies. In fact, anybody wanting a state favor was likely to employ Roy's firm...
...Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...