Word: club
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invited to address the Woman's National Democratic Club in Washington as its first "nonpolitical speaker" in ages, Actor Ralph Bellamy, a superb young Franklin D. Roosevelt in Broadway's long-running Sunrise at Campobello, startled the ladies by opening with a political announcement. Said Bellamy forthrightly: "I'm a registered Democrat-but I voted...
...this summer with massive LP infusions of George Gershwin, massively publicized by a full throated chorus of movie and record company pressagents. With Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess about to be released, the record makers have pressed nearly 30 Porgy albums, ranging in style from Overstuffed Country Club to Tubular Cool. Columbia has issued excerpts from the sound track with Cab Calloway dubbed in as Sportin' Life in place of Sammy Davis Jr., who sings the role in the movie.* The sampling is generous, and the sound is refulgent, but most of the performances lack a properly...
...country for old men. Ben Hogan, 46, shared the lead in the first round, but could not stand the pace. Sam Snead, 45, got hot for one three-under-par round, then subsided. By the final 18 holes of the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Winged Foot Country Club course in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y., young (27) Bill Casper Jr. held a three-stroke lead. On the last day Bill Casper, golf's best putter, bogeyed three of the last eight holes, but finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back...
Burly Mike Souchak birdied the tough 16th hole to move within a stroke of the lead, but an overstroked approach gave him a bogey on the 18th and he was out of the running. Rosburg, who grips a 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...
...only son of a San Diego plasterer, Casper caddied at the San Diego Country Club. He developed his putting touch out of convenience. "I'd practice driving an hour and get tired," he explains, "so I started chipping and putting to rest. I found it was more fun than driving." Unlike many top golfers, he has no desire to practice ("I hate it"). After four years of nominal service in the Navy, during which he spent most of his time developing driving ranges in the San Diego area, Casper hit the professional circuit, picked up his first check...