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...Tort Churchill? Never heard of it. Do you mean Churchill with the big cigar...
...ladder to the woods. He considered the wind and terrain even in practice, controlled every shot as if the tournament had begun. He has a horror of what he calls the Sunday golfer's gravest sin: "Just hitting the ball without thinking." Like cigar-chomping Walter J. Travis, golf's hero of half a century ago, Hogan likes to say that he never hits a careless shot...
Winston Churchill had a busy week. Three days before his 74th birthday, he donned jodhpurs, fortified himself with rum punch and galloped off to the hounds astride a borrowed horse. Churchill's inevitable, square-crowned Russell hat was jammed well down on his head, his equally inevitable cigar clenched firmly between his teeth...
Heiskell's tolerance also permits a daily column in the staid Gazette by Hardy ("Spider") Rowland, a cigar-chomping, self-confessed sinner who used to run a suburban gambling house. Spider writes about his bouts with "wobble water," refers to young girls as "quails," and brags about his encounters with the law. Spider wrote in a recent column: "I attribute my outstanding ability to kiss to blowing a bugle for a couple of years with the Boy Scouts...
After it was finally over, when all the scoreboard lights went out except those that said, Harvard 20--Yale 7, an old, old grad--he must have been about 70--sat down on the concrete steps and, smiling from ear to ear, lit a big after-dinner cigar...