Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASHINGTON: James Shepley, John Beal Walter Bennett, Marshall Berger, Clay Blair, Jr., George B. Bookman, Martha Bucknell, Edwin Darby, T. George Harris, Henry Luce III, James L. McConaughy, Jr., William McHale, Alyce Moran, Anatole Visson, William White. CHICAGO: Sam Welles, Robert W. Glasgow, Ruth Mehrtens, Robert Schulman. Los ANGELES: Ben Williamson, James Murray, John Allen, Lyn Kennedy. DETROIT: Fred Collins. ATLANTA: William Howland, Boyd McDonald. BOSTON: Jeff Wylie. DALLAS: William Johnson. HOUSTON: Willard C. Rappleye, Jr. DENVER: Ed Ogle, Charles Champlin. SAN FRANCISCO: Alfred Wright. SEATTLE: Dean Brelis. OTTAWA: Serrell Hillman Byron W. Riggan. MONTREAL: James R. Conant...
...These greens are awful," Ben Hogan told his new Scottish friends. "It's like putting on glue. I've got a lawnmower back in Texas. I'll send it over to you." Indeed, U.S. Champion Hogan, making his first practice rounds of the old municipal golf course at Carnoustie on the eve of the British Open, saw very little that he liked...
...days wore on and methodical Ben went about his practice routine-three shots, differently placed, from every tee-Scottish annoyance turned to admiration for the dour little man from Texas. Before long, the Scots were calling him, almost affectionately, "The Wee Ice Mon," though a hard core still proudly insisted: "No American is going to burn up Carnoustie...
...second-round 71, some of it played in rain and hail, left him tied for third, just two strokes off the pace. A reporter suggested that he was in a nice position for the run for the finish, the 36 grueling holes of the last day. "Yeah," agreed Ben, "it's not a bad position, but you've got to play. You've really got to play...
...final day, Hogan appeared on the first tee bundled up in two sweaters and feeling the touch of flu. "Better have an oxygen tent ready on the 18th; I'll need it," he warned an official. A Scots paper headlined: HOGAN FALTERS. Instead of faltering, Ben began gunning out 300-yd. drives in place of his usual, careful 250-yarders. Where his putts had been falling short, Ben changed style and stroked harder. His third-round 70 left him in a tie for the lead...