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...homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War Admiral. For change of pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen, took a slow-motion look at a disputed football play. This week it will picture Jack Fleck's U.S. Open golf victory over Ben Hogan in 1955, the 1942 race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan's famed comeback, Jesse Owens' track feats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics...
...privy is a privy in East Riding. But elsewhere it is a netty, nessy or petty. To be left-handed is to be anything from key-handed to gallock-handed, kay-handed, korky-handed, wappay-handed or skiffy-handed. In Lancashire a flea is a flenn or a fleck, but the people of north Lincolnshire and north Yorkshire still say lops-a leftover from the Danish invasions of the 9th century. Such a word as udder can assume a bewildering number of forms-ewer, elder...
Under such pressure, Sam Snead, 44, took 40 goes at it to finish nine holes (five over par), which assured his 16th defeat in 16 tries at the Open. Jack Fleck, last year's winner, did not even qualify for the final two rounds. When the 51 finalists lined up for the last 36 holes on the lush green course, an affable, free-swinging Australian named Peter Thomson, 26, held the lead by a single stroke over Old Pro Ben Hogan, out for his fifth Open title. Rangy Gary Middlecoff, 35, the Memphis dentist, was only two strokes back...
...paid for. He is relaxed and eating his food." Mangrum went for $15,500. "I give you Arnold Palmer. Short backswing; no choker." Palmer's sale price: $7,000. Wershow found his biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where's your gambling blood, fellows? He's the national champ." Fleck fell for a meager...
...former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, Army Football Coach Earl Blaik, Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion John B. Kelly (father of Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace Kelly...