Word: dufferism
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Joining the Golf Society of Great Britain as its 1,000th member, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (handicap: 18), received a sturdy, useful gift: a wedge, "not for getting you into holes, but out of trouble." Posing like a duffer (head up, grip too far down on the shaft) with his new club, Lloyd mused about some off-course problems: "I am not a good golfer. But I am wondering whether this club is appropriate for a game of Summitry. I do, I know, spend quite a lot of time in the rough. I have a bad stance. I often have...
...first act, though awkwardly staged around an automobile resembling a behemoth bathtub, was saved by the amusing inefficiency of the duffer Parpalaid (played by Sobert Dargie) and the witty, if sometimes forced, interpretation of his hayseed wife played by Priscilla Foley...
...reduced to modeling and drugs. He, a once tough, talented proletarian who might have been a Labor cabinet minister, is reduced to penny-alining and drink. In Table Number Seven Actor Portman is a natty fraud who has largely invented a dashing military past and a sexually timid duffer who has been pinched for molesting women in cinemas. Actress Leighton is an angular, sniffiy spinster who loves the fraud whom her dragon of a mother exposes and tries to expel...
...later, Louis St. Laurent was out on the Ottawa course testing his new equipment. He seemed to enjoy the exercise, playing with his daughter Madeleine (Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell). But no one outside the family could say whether the set of championship sticks had any magical effect on Duffer St. Laurent's chronically 100-plus game. As usual, he kept his score a deep secret...
...father of three: William J. III, 23, a Marine Corps lieutenant; Hugh L., 20, a part-time college student; Nancy, 7. An affable, storytelling Irishman, Brennan has been called jaunty, dapper, lacking the austere aspect commonly associated with Justices. A much-sought after-dinner speaker, he also plays duffer golf (low 100s), likes to read American history, Plato, dime novels. Said his happy wife this week: "On Friday afternoon my husband called me from the office and said there was a telegram from the Attorney General. It said something about 'Come down and have breakfast with me and then...