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...P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week's U.S. Open, at his mercy. And all because of a borrowed putter...
...them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese knew a golden opportunity when he saw one; he not only snatched Mrs. Roosevelt's memoirs away from the Goulds, but took her monthly answer page to boot. With a jubilant scrambling of metaphors he described his catch as "the biggest plum in the women's magazine field . . . the Journal's umbilical cord with its readers...
...Angeles angle. The Mirror offered $100,000 in rewards to readers who helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid's biggest circulation-puller was a lively column of double-meaning "Strictly Personal" want ads, which sniggering newsmen on other Los Angeles papers suspected Mirror staffers of writing themselves. Sample: "Man with lavender shirt that's a dilly would like to meet lady with blue dress that's a dilly. Object...
Last week, in his San Mateo, Calif. home, Amadeo Peter Giannini died of a heart attack. Behind him he left the biggest banking empire in the world ($6 billion in assets and 522 branches), but a personal fortune estimated as low as $300,000. A.P. had never been interested in merely making money...
...sales up to a new high of $23.7 million (though, with higher costs, the net slipped to $1,000,000), second to Cluett, Peabody's (TIME, Oct. 11). Convinced that he has a winner in his new wrinkleproof collar, Phillips plans to push it with his biggest ($1,500,000) advertising campaign...