Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Ag. The domain that plain Charles Brannan presides over is one of the largest duchies in the peacetime federal bureaucracy. With 72,000 employees sprinkled across the nation, Agriculture eats through a $734 million budget for operations alone-a long jump from the days when Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin sent home seeds and plant cuttings from abroad and George Washington vainly urged Congress to spend money to promote agriculture...
...little man," said ex-Open Champion Lloyd Mangrum, "is the only one in golf I've ever feared." The little man was Texas Ben Hogan, hitting the comeback trail after a near-fatal auto accident last year (TIME, Feb. 14, 1949). After the first round of the National Open last week, Ben Hogan was trailing eight strokes behind an unknown, unemployed 26-year-old pro from Birmingham named Lee Mackey Jr., who had burned up the course with a record-breaking six-under...
...greens. "I'm puttin' as though my doggone arms wuz broke," moaned Sam. As the incoming scores went up on the huge scoreboards, other topflighters began to slip: Jimmy Demaret (149 for the first 36 holes), Al Brosch (151), Lawson Little (153). But iron-nerved Ben Hogan improved his first-round 72 with a one-under...
Hogan's real test came on the third day. Not since his accident had he played a full 36 holes in one day. With a grim smile, Ben went to work. The morning round left him two strokes back of Lloyd Mangrum's leading pace. In the afternoon, going into the final four holes, he needed par golf to win by two strokes. Tired and sagging, he could not quite make it. He missed an 18-inch putt on the dogleg 15th. On the 17th he lost another stroke by trapping his tee shot, settled for a three...
...Airman Kuroki off to a flying start, 42 Nebraska weekly editors, publishers and staffers, including several ex-G.I.s, came from miles around, pitched in to help Ben make his first edition a memorable one (the volunteer staff called it the "Welcome Ben Kuroki" edition).They did a good deal more. For the first edition, which rolls off the presses this week, they put together 40 pages instead of the usual eight, and drummed up an overflow supply of 3,300 inches of advertising. Said grateful Editor Kuroki: "This couldn't happen in any other country...