Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collector's Item Ralph Kennedy, 69, a New York salesman, hoards his golf score cards the way other men collect stamps. Stacked in his safe-deposit box are cards from 2,999 courses that he has played. Last week, playing badly ("My score was high"), but pleased as punch, nonetheless, Kennedy brought his total to 3,000 and got a gem of a collector's item: the score card of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (see above). Kennedy figures that "3,000 different courses is a world record. I don't think it will ever...
...though others have indeed followed in his footsteps. His basic maneuver--which later came to be known as Gambit's Gambit--occurred to him one day quite by chance. He had been brooding about the problem in his Boston lair when his landlady, a Mrs. O'Reilly, came to collect the rent. It suddenly came to his mind that, although her person was not too charming, her voice could possibly be made to sound young and beautiful over the phone. After several trying months of elocution lessons this proved to be the case. Gambit contracted with Mrs. O'Reilly...
...Standee behind last row reveals that he has $270 on Randy Turpin. Will collect $600 if his man wins...
...though others have indeed followed in his footsteps. His basic maneuver--which later came to be known as Gambit's Gambit--occurred to him one day quite by chance. He had been brooding about the problem in his Boston lair when his landlady, a Mrs. O'Reilly, came to collect the rent. It suddenly came to his mind that, although her person was not too charming, her voice could possibly be made to sound young and beautiful over the phone. After several trying months of elocution lessons this proved to be the case. Gambit contracted with Mrs. O'Reilly...
...Standee behind last row reveals that he has $270 on Randy Turpin. Will collect $600 if his man wins...