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...Ben Hogan (Jan. 10, 1949), 1948's golfer of the year and favorite for most top 1949 tournaments, lost the $15,000 Los Angeles Open Tournament during the week of the cover and three weeks later suffered a near-fatal accident in his car. (Hogan's subsequent comeback is one of the great sport stories of the decade...
...Ben Jones (May 30, 1949) was the leading U.S. trainer whose horse Citation went on that year to win the Triple Crown for Calumet Farm. With Jones still top trainer, Citation last week became the first thoroughbred to pass the million-dollar mark in earnings (see Sport...
There are a few uneasy moments at the start, when Ben Graner gushes about "the daring man they said would never come back alive" and how he "threw himself at the mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale...
Taft men are already beating the country: his good friend (and second cousin) David Sinton Ingalls, and Ben E. Tate have visited 23 states, talking up Taft...
...were not for nonpareil Ben Hogan, Snead would be the No. I U.S. golfer. His one weakness, which has twice cost him the Open championship, is putting; he tried 18 different putters in 1948. Even so, he has won 73 tournaments since 1937. Last year, leading the money winners for the third time, Snead banked $35,758.83. His P.G.A. victory last week was his third (the others: 1942 and 1949), a mark equaled only by Gene Sarazen and bettered only by the great Walter Hagen. Snead is glum when he loses. Last week he was grinning from...