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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bantam Ben Hogan had played good golf since his comeback last winter (TIME, Jan. 16), but he had yet to win a tournament. In the Greenbrier open tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. this week, he made up for all that. Ben's winning score: a 21-under-par 259 for 72 holes, tying the alltime world record for play on a par-70 regulation course. Said Ben: "I'm picking up where I left...
Died. William Rose Benét, 64, Pulitzer Prize poet (The Dust Which Is God), brother of the late Stephen Vincent (John Brown's Body) Benét, husband (1923-28) of the late poet Elinor Wylie; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Moody William Benét, editor of the recent Reader's Encyclopedia of world literature and arts, once defined a poet as simply "a man who takes his craft seriously...
...BEN LILLY LEGEND (237 pp.)- J. Frank Dobie-Little, Brown...
When Multimillionaire Southwest Oilman William H. McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small army of dogs, horses, pack mules, cooks and a photographer, McFadden and a party of his friends started north. Hunter Ben Lilly's chief mission: "To get McFadden a chance at a grizzly bear...
Shadow That Bear. Scouting ahead in the mountains above Taos, N. Mex., Ben Lilly struck a fresh trail. He hurried back to camp with the good news but McFadden had been called East on business...