Word: duffer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last hole of the tourney, he flubbed a shot from a bunker-just like a Sunday duffer. But on the next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...
...sand wedge is the club most novices neglect. Even when a duffer does buy one, he usually gets the wrong kind. He should choose one with a wide flange on the sole of the club. It makes one of golf's toughest shots (coming out of traps and bunkers) easy. It also helps make pitch shots simple...
When he finished making Blue Skies, Fred Astaire thought he would stop dancing. He didn't want people to start asking, "What's that old duffer still hanging around for?" But last week the old duffer was hard at work at some new dances in a new setting...
...away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand to the simplest and cheapest French Canadian farmhouse...
...through, now that Blue Skies is completed. "I've had a long, long career," says the man who began hoofing in Omaha at five and was a Broadway star at 17. "There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying that Astaire is a hell of a dancer." Henceforth, he will probably produce movies and open a chain of schools...