Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domestic issues, bantam-like Jimmy Byrnes, looking and acting younger than his 71 years, gave Harry Truman a keelhauling. Speaking as the natural leader and spokesman of anti-Fair Deal rebels in the whole Democratic South, he hoped that the "political proposals and socialistic programs" written into the President's budget would not be pressed, for they "are certain to divide our people." He tartly ridiculed Truman's civil-rights program: "We must assume that the Administration will again urge the court to repudiate what has been the law of the land for half a century." There would...
...Bantam Ben Hogan over the field, for the Professional Golfers' Association award as "Golfer of the Year...
...first, big Willis Smith, a corporation lawyer who stood for the South-as-is, couldn't decide whether to make another try for the U.S. Senate. In last month's North Carolina Democratic primary bantam Fair Dealer Frank Graham had led him by 53,383 votes. But since Graham did not get a clear majority in a four-way race, Willis Smith was entitled to a runoff. Smith didn't know whether he could muster enough money and votes. At the last minute, he decided...
...Bantam Ben Hogan had played good golf since his comeback last winter (TIME, Jan. 16), but he had yet to win a tournament. In the Greenbrier open tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. this week, he made up for all that. Ben's winning score: a 21-under-par 259 for 72 holes, tying the alltime world record for play on a par-70 regulation course. Said Ben: "I'm picking up where I left...
After that, bantam-sized (5 ft. 5 in.) Bev Osborne always served his chicken in the rough. The customers got no silverware, just fingerbowls. They liked it so much that Osborne kept expanding his Oklahoma City restaurant (it now seats 1,100) and built two more. He also trademarked the name Chicken in the Rough, and began licensing other restaurants...