Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Crosby & Co. moved over to Monterey Peninsula, an easier course, and then to spectacular Pebble Beach for the final 18. On the first tee, a kid yelled, "Betcha a quarter," as Bing began his backswing. Without pausing, Bing yelled back, "A quarter what?" and drove the ball out 230 yards. Among the pros, the pacesetter was slender Lloyd Mangrum, with Hogan and Bobby Locke dangerously close...
Hazardous No. 8. At Pebble Beach, the hole that players feared most and the crowd most enjoyed was No. 8. It is a 425-yd. dogleg running around the edge of a steep cliff, with hazards to the right & left, and about 135 yards of salt water to go over. Lloyd Mangrum, playing the kind of golf that made him 1946's U.S. Open Champion, got his par. His final score for the 54 holes: 205, ten under par. Said Mangrum, collecting the $2,000 first prize:* "This is my week off. I'm playing here...
...pounding, the warships and carrier planes ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied the colonel: "If you think it's that easy why don't you come on the beach at five o'clock, have supper with me, and pick up a few souvenirs...
...Marine Division on Peleliu had made only 200 yards. The Japanese lieutenant had noted in his diary that although the bombardment had altered the island's scenery, only one man in his company was hurt. Snug in their caves, the Japanese waited until the first wave hit the beach, then, "the guns on point and island opened, many of those back in the ridge, and a mortar barrage so heavy that those who lived through it said it was the worst they had ever seen." By nightfall there were 1,298 dead & wounded Marines, the beachhead was secure...
...picture, close to perfect of its kind. Britain's Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger exported a casual, charming romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going. Nightmare Alley had a sardonic toughness which, to their detriment, U.S. films have almost lost. Jean Renoir made Woman on the Beach an artful blend of mood and melodrama. Delmer Daves enlarged his conspicuous promise as a writer-director with two melodramas, The Red House and The Dark Passage. Sweden's Torment was, in its first half, one of any good year's ten best...