Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pocket, Snead took the day coach to Pennsylvania for the Hershey Open and his nervous tee-off in big-time tournament golf. His first two drives landed in a stream, but Sam pulled himself together and finished in sixth place. That autumn he went to Florida. At the Miami Open he won $108 and signed a contract to endorse Dunlop golfing equipment for $500 and his clubs and balls. "Ah had $300 and ah was $800 rich," he recalls, rolling his eyes...
PRAISIN' TIZENHAR-the Chief Executive of the U.S. (Florida...
Within an hour after Schine reported to him for duty, Miller related, the private suggested that the captain might want "to make a little trip to Florida." Miller cut him off in midsentence, admonishing him that "it was improper for officers to accept any kind of favors . . . from trainees." One rainy day, when Schine's company was on the firing range, Miller spotted Schine sitting in the cab of a truck. Schine explained that he was "studying logistics...
When Governor Dan McCarty died (TIME, Oct. 12), he left Florida a heritage of reform and an heir who was no reformer: State Senate President Charley E. (for Eugene) Johns, 49, an unleavened Florida cracker from the upstate piney woods. A onetime railroad conductor, Johns had collected more than $70,000 from selling insurance to state agencies while presiding officer of the state senate. He had voted for legalized slot machines, against school construction and against unmasking the Ku Klux Klan...
Confidently he entered the Democratic runoff-decisive in Florida-against State Senator LeRoy Collins, 45. Son of a circuit-riding Texas minister, Collins was rated the state's outstanding senator. He has a son at Annapolis and three young daughters with him at the Grove, a 129-year-old Tallahassee house built by his wife's great-grandfather, Richard Keith Call, governor of Florida Territory during most of the Second Seminole War (1835-42). A curly-haired six-footer, Collins looked good on TV and campaigned strenuously against Charley Johns's "muster of the vultures...