Word: babe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strode to the first tee, Babe obligingly clowned for photographers and the gallery, but she was in no joking mood. For one of the few times in her competitive golf life (14 years) the Babe found herself in the hole: one stroke behind stocky, redheaded Patty Berg, 33, Ladies' P.G.A. president...
...around the hilly Knollwood course in quest of prize money that will total $80,000 this year. The big wheel on the women's circuit and the one who has made women's golf pay off: Mrs. George Zaharias, better known as Mildred Didrikson, or just plain "Babe...
...catching up on peacetime fun. In his new civilian uniform (double-breasted, grey flannel suit, bow tie and grey felt hat), he arrived at Yankee Stadium to see the Yankee-Browns game, was asked by the announcer to say a few words. He obliged with some old memories of Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson and Lou Gehrig, ended by throwing his favorite punch line with a slight twist: "Unlike old soldiers who never die, unfortunately these men did, but American sportsmanship will never let their memory fade away." Next, in black tie and double-breasted dinner jacket, he turned...
...Golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias, with a second-round 66 (equaling the women's world record), the first lap in the four-course Weathervane tournament; in Dallas. Next stop: Pebble Beach, Calif...
...Hiss, helped hang upon it. But the Government thought that Du Pont was the only company for the job. Said an atomic energy expert: "To ask anybody else to build the plant when you could get Du Pont would be like settling for a rookie when you could get Babe Ruth in his prime...