Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They trained at Fort Sill. A chaplain-not Father Tiernan-undertook to give them a lecture on clean living. A rugged man, the chaplain stepped into a ring one night to make his point. He called for challengers. The boys of Battery D shoved Tommy Murphy into the ring. The chaplain held his finger in front of his own nose. "You try to hit it, son," he said. "I'll just show you what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said...
...Fort Lee, N.J., pudgy Nightclubber George Ross, 32, was married to onetime Cinemactress Arline Judge, 36, who has, at one time or another, been married to Director Wesley Ruggles, Sportsman Dan Topping, Ad Executive Vincent Morgan Ryan, R.A.F. Captain James Addams, and Bob Topping, Dan's brother (who is now married to Lana Turner...
When TIME'S Sport editor Marshall Smith flew to Fort Worth, Texas to get Ben Hogan's story for the first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house...
...found that Hogan talked spontaneously enough about Fort Worth's summers, the joys of the California climate-and about golf, except when a direct question was asked. One of them, a naive query about putting, produced a horrified "You're not going to say that in your story?" from Hogan. Perfectionist Hogan began to worry and, later, complained: "You're getting this all mixed up." Said Smith: "Look, your game is golf; this story is my business. Let me handle...
...Fort Kent Mills...