Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until the third round that Hogan really took charge. Bantam (139 Ibs.) Ben, playing with chunky (220 Ibs.) Ed Oliver, and often out-hitting him, drew ohs & ahs from a crowd of some 10,000 with his fairway-splitting shots. The ahs changed to outright cheers on the ninth green when golfdom's mechanical man, after careful sighting, crisply stroked a 60-ft. putt into the cup for an outgoing four-under-par 32. The word that went around the Augusta gallery...
When he was landed at Norfolk, Va. in January 1944, Reinhold Pabel, prisoner of war, was a tight-jawed, scarred little bantam with a calculating eye. But he was a pleasant and contemplative sort of fellow too. He had studied for the priesthood as a youth at the University of Münster, spoke English and Russian, was the author of a German book entitled Athos, the Holy Mountain. He gradually concluded that he wanted to live...
...trip to Europe to help forget his domestic troubles, Manhattan's bantam Showman Billy Rose, 52, confided to a London reporter that he would like to adopt two homeless European children. He explained: "When I married Miss Fanny Brice, she was one of America's great comediennes and very busy. When I married Miss Eleanor Holm, I was very busy." Why did he want children now? Was he lonely? Not exactly, said Rose. "At my age, most people are lucky if they have enough friends to go round one card table. Me, I've got enough...
...modest, $250 advance from Random House. Nine months ago, Lael Tucker (wife of Novelist-TIME, Oct. 16, 1950-Charles Christian Wertenbaker) turned in Lament for Four Virgins. After a close look, Random House not only decided to publish it but sold reprint rights, in advance of publication, to Bantam Books for $35,000-a Bantam record for a first novel...
...united them is a wiry, bantam-sized lowan, who first began working as a refinery laborer in 1925. As president of the C.I.O. Oil Workers International Union, Orie Albert ("Jack") Knight, 49, began pleading for unity last fall, soon smoothed over the jealousies and jurisdictional rivalries that had kept the oil unions apart. He is still moving slowly; much of the industry remains to be organized. But as he presided over the deadlock at his Denver headquarters last week, Jack Knight plainly looked like a man hopefully trying on the crown and testing the strength of a new labor kingdom...