Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club pros-big frogs in the little puddles and big bunkers back home. They didn't look as good against pro golf's Big 20 as they did against the local businessmen. Said Gene Sarazen, watching one of them practice earnestly for the next day's dawn patrol: "He'll be back in Swizzlestick, Arkansas, next month, giving lessons...
...rarer kind of dew sweeper was the amateur: at Florida prices, few could afford amateur standing. The dawn patrol slept in auto camps and trailers. They lived on hamburgers and Cokes. In the last few months, six top amateurs have turned pro. Said one of them, Fred Haas Jr.: "It cost me $6,000 to expense myself through 25 tourneys last year. That's costly." Almost the only amateurs left were well-to-do businessmen who can break par, but cannot break into the Big 20. They get a kick out of being in the same tournament with golf...
Driving Cambridge-ward down a Dorchester bill in the wee, pre-dawn hours one night, a Yardling was halted by a flashlight attached to a police-man. After submitting to a tirade, the hapless student insisted that he had bought the car while stationed in Texas, that he lived in New York, and that he went to school in Massachusetts...
Minutes later, state highway patrolmen and guards were burning the roads to Columbia. At dawn the patrolmen moved into Mink Slide, smashed its stores, pulled quaking Negroes out of the miserable buildings. As their Tommy guns blazed, one Negro was seriously shot (see cut)', the patrolmen beat others, then marched them off to jail...
Deadline at Dawn. Cops-&-killer drama with Paul Lukas, Susan Hayward, Bill Williams...