Word: coe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicklaus bothered by the prospect of eventually figuring the lie of the greens against Defending Champion Charlie Coe, 35, the dry-spoken, shaft-lean (6 ft., 150 lbs.) oil broker from Oklahoma City. Nicklaus had just the club to back up his long game off the tee: an oldfashioned, hickory-shafted putter, which he had ordered in Scotland last spring while helping Captain Coe defend the Walker Cup against the British amateurs. In the semifinals, faced with a 27-ft. putt downhill over a hump, Nicklaus precisely moved his new bat and watched the ball trickle home to eliminate California...
...finals Coe started fast, drilling birdies on the first three holes, led two up after the morning round of 18 holes. But in the afternoon Coe began to wilt. He sent seven of nine tee shots into the rough, set six geese to frantic squawking by nearly dropping a ball into their pond...
Swinging with smooth power, canning his putts with authority, Nicklaus caught Coe on the 21st hole. Going into the 36th, the exhausted Coe and the confident Nicklaus were still tied. The sun was down, and the greens had slowed when Coe chipped for the cup out of a grassed bunker. Normally, the ball would have rolled in, but in the dampening grass it stopped inches away. Nicklaus conferred briefly with 16-year-old Caddy Bob Valdes ("Best greens reader we've got," said Club Pro Ed Dudley). Then Nicklaus took his new putter and sank his eight-footer...
...order."). Also familiar is the debatable thesis that there are no snobs in foxholes, or even in barracks on the first day of basic training. Immediate buddyhood is established among Sal Mineo, a jivey cat from Manhattan's Lower East Side; Barry Coe, an Ivy sort from Glen Cove, L.I.; and Gary Crosby, who is cast as a rich Oregon rancher's son but manages to mug, wheeze and groan like a Bing from another planet...
...guests for the remaining week are: July 12, Dr. Heiko Oberman, HDS; July 19, Rev. John Vannorsdall, Lutheran Chaplain, Cornell; July 26, Rev. Robert Dodds, Second Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn.; August 2, Dean Samuel Miller, HDS; August 9, Rev. Chalmers Coe, Hartford Seminary Foundation; August 16, Rev. Roger Johnson, Summer Vesper Services...