Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Knollwood's regular caddies had gone back to school. The strong-backed swabbies from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station who filled in were polite but helpless. They had been taught to say "Sir," but they seldom knew which club to haul from the bag. Harvie Ward was bothered least of all by this lack of practiced help. All he really needed was a putter...
...pored over mail in his study, chatted with his pretty, pregnant daughter-in-law Nancy and a somber Adlai Jr. ("We don't want our boys going to Korea as you did," says Dad), picnicked on the lawn with ex-Mayor of Philadelphia Joseph Clark, trundled a huge bag of groceries (packed mostly with wadded paper) from his car to the front porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence...
Just about the only competitor who stayefl out of the argument was Texan Williim T. Waggoner, representing the Seattle Yacht Club. When the last heat started, he thought he had the race in the bag. His Maverick was not doing well, but his Shanty I was running in front. Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool...
...counters and latched on to five natty little numbers-a chromatic collection of feathered "half hats" in mauve, yellow, black and white, and a pert red wool beanie. The whole lot came to ?1 12s. 11 d. ($4.61). The next thing anyone knew, the hats were in her shopping bag and Nina was in the hands of some hard-eyed store detectives who decided that she had failed to go through the capitalistic formality of paying. Naturally, Nina couldn't understand a word. And no one in the store could understand Nina. So the whole argument was moved...
Died. Samuel McPherson ("Golf Bag") Hunt, 55, legendary disciplinarian for Al Capone, who scorned the traditional violin case, jolted fashion-conscious Chicago colleagues by carrying his submachine gun where his mashie should have been (and reputedly dubbed his first shot, whose target survived to be known as "Sam Hunt's Hole in One"), was arrested for many Chicago murders, convicted for none during Prohibition years and the decade following, later became the man to see in Chicago bookmaking; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Schenectady...