Word: babes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amateur championship with a hip-swinging hula that brought frowns of disapproval from the staid U.S.G.A. This year, playing for pro pay, Jackie has restrained her hulas, but her booming 240-yd. tee shots have taken the play-and some of the pay-from such old pros as Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg...
...carded a 75 on her final round to make her 72-hole score four strokes under the record set by Babe Zaharias of Tampa, Fla., in winning the 1950 tourney...
JUST before the semifinals of the Women's Western Open in 1945, Babe was notified that her mother had suddenly died. In no doubt of what her mother would have wanted her to do, she went ahead with the tournament, minus her usual routine of high jinks and wisecracks, and won it to become the first three-time titleholder. Last summer, for the first time in five years, Babe failed to be top-money winner on the women's pro circuit. She dropped quietly out of sight to be operated on for a hernia. During convalescence, her weight...
...best player and biggest draw in women's golf, Babe stopped wearing a chip on her shoulder. Instead of greeting all rivals with, "Yep, I'm gonna beat you," she began encouraging the younger girls on the circuit and established a working friendship with the older ones. When George is not traveling the circuit with her, she often rooms with Patty Berg, who has been her chief adversary for years...
...mind seems almost as wiry as her body. "There isn't a crossword puzzle I can't finish in half an hour," Babe admits modestly. She likes to play gin rummy but is too good at it to get many opponents. The once lonely, homely tomboy is now a social success; she is an extremely graceful ballroom dancer and the life of almost any party, doing imitations of herself as a child singing I Get the Blues When It Rains, or hauling out a harmonica and rocking into a hillbilly air. Babe once banked $3,500 for taking...