Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME'S Sport editor Marshall Smith flew to Fort Worth, Texas to get Ben Hogan's story for the first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house...
...Hogan was the 14th cover story† that Marshall Smith has written for TIME'S Sport department in the last four years. An ex-prep school swimmer and football player, he confesses to an insider's knowledge of only one sport: horse racing (his father was a horse owner and trainer who made the circuit from Cuba to Montreal for 15 years). Smith, who is 34, came to TIME five years ago via his native Baltimore's Evening Sun, the Providence Star-Tribune and Journal, where he wrote sports and features for seven years...
...cover story gives him a chance to examine a sport, as well as a champion, in considerable detail. In the case of Ben Hogan, a number of people had to be seen before the story assumed its proper focus. After his five days with Hogan, whom he liked and respected, Smith invited the golfer and his wife to come out to the house the next time they were in New York City. However, he added a note of caution : "You may not want to after you've read the cover story." As of last week, it looked...
...Once a customer has been stung into buying such a book, he will be wary the second time, if the cover is merely a lurid disguise for a poorly designed, badly printed book," Armitage declared...
National Scholarship stipends have been increased this year by "the amount equal to the sum of the increases in tuition, room, and board," Bender reported. Regular scholarship stipends, however, will rise to meet the recent tuition increase only, and cannot cover the additional living costs. Thus National Scholars are the only students unaffected by the recent cost hike...