Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back to wait, and wait. Into contention shot a pair of rugged challengers: Mike Souchak, 32, onetime Duke University All-America football player, and Bob Rosburg, 32, onetime captain of Stanford University's N.C.A.A. champion golf team...
...club like a baseball bat, sank a chip shot and 30-ft. putt for successive birdies on the 11th and 12th. But on the final hole he needed to sink a 40-ft. putt to tie. It stopped a foot short, and Bill Casper was the U.S. Open champion...
...year flu forced him to give up golf for two months. Until last week's triumph, he had not played in a month. Casper's putting faltered this spring, but for the Open it was wondrous. In four rounds he took only 115 putts. Said the new champion: "I knew that as soon as the putting came back...
Tenebrous. A calm champion-the first boy to win since 1954-pudgy, pink-cheeked Joel slung an arm around tearful Bobby and quietly allowed that his only real puzzler had been intitule in an early round. Joel came equipped to win. The son of a lumber salesman, he reads four or five books a week, is starting Darwin's Origin of Species. And his spelling coach at Denver's Byers Junior High School is Teacher Ted Glim, producer of a co-champion two years ago, who shuns rote memorization. Glim starts with accurate pronunciation. "Then we go thoroughly...
Died. Dr. Grantly Dick Read. 69, champion of natural childbirth, who argued that labor pains are largely caused by fear, reported (No Time for Fear) from a trip to Africa that 95% of the unafraid primitive women he examined had painless deliveries; in Wroxham, England...