Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours later. For two days April rains hampered Ike's golfing, but at last the sun came out and the President was able to play with a new partner: Lumber Salesman Billy Jo Patton, the sensational amateur from Morgantown, N.C., who finished third, right behind Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, in the recent Masters Tournament. Patton returned to Augusta after the Masters' especially to meet Ike. and together they trounced their opponents, Club Chairman Cliff Roberts and Columbus, Ga. Broker William Zimmerman. Ike carded a respectable 88 and Billy Jo had a sensational 68, including five birdies...
...students needed a breather from their case books. Ten months ago, Professor William Davenport of the university's English department started to compile a bibliography, by now has found more than 200 works by or about lawyers. Among the first items studied by his students: Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Willa Gather's Paul's Case. Davenport also gives students a taste of such lawyer-poets as Wallace Stevens and Edgar Lee Masters, exposes them to the theater with Galsworthy's Justice, Elmer Rice's Counsellor...
...Crimson coach will choose his six-man singles lineup from a list which includes Steve Gottlieb, Ben Heckscher, Cal place, Langdon Smith, Doug Gardner, Barry Boehm, Charlie Edwards, and Grayson Murphy...
Greens were soggy and slow. Defending Champion Ben Hogan, the Mechanical Man from Texas, said he needed a Seeing Eye dog to find the pins. But Hogan was only talking trouble. His game under control, he was well up in second place. Samuel Jackson Snead, 1952's winner, was a nervous three strokes back...
Longtime Communist Ben Gold, 55, president of the Fur & Leather Workers Union, was found guilty by a Federal Court jury in Washington last week of making false statements to a Government agency. His crime: filing a Taft-Hartley law non-Communist affidavit on Aug. 30, 1950, a few days after "fraudulently" announcing his resignation from the party...