Word: chamness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before civilization became overclotted with low pragmatical fellows, a man of letters cut a fine figure in the world. None was more pompous ("splendid; magnificent; grand") than Dr. Samuel Johnson, known to his contemporaries as the Great Lexicographer, or the Great Cham of literature...
...tour, is hardly the ultimate test of golf. But it does have $50,000 in prize money, and until last week, it enjoyed a certain notoriety as one of the only two major U.S. tournaments that Arnold Palmer has never won (the other: the P.G.A. Three-time Masters cham pion, winner of the U.S. and British Opens and of more money in one year ($81,448 last season) than any other golfer in history, Palmer had played in the tournament seven times, had never finished better than tenth. On the 508-yd., par-5 ninth hole at Los Angeles...
Washington Correspondent Cham-berlin's assignment was just one part of a vast tapestry of intensive reporting by TIME'S staff in the rush of political events of the past few weeks-reporting that contributed to the cover stories on Jack Kennedy and his family (July 11) and Lyndon Johnson (July 18) in the two issues that preceded their nomination, and followed through for this week's report-in-depth on the nominating convention. Thirty staffers, headquartered in the temporary TIME offices at the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel, fanned out through corridors, caucuses...