Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regional Public Service: WSB & WSB-TV, for "promoting the best interests of Atlanta, Ga. and the Southeast" in WSB's The Pastor's Study and WSB-TV's Our World Today...
Cold Calculation. In Decatur, Ga., physicians interested in establishing a large new clinic were just as interested in changing the name of the site they had chosen: Cemetery Street...
...Stanky stuck it out through eight years in the minors. Three of them, happily, were spent under Manager Milton Stock, now a Pittsburgh Pirates coach, who was part owner of the Macon, Ga. team in the Sally (South Atlantic) League. Stanky recalls his minor-league experience as an unending series of brawls (35 fist fights) and rows with umpires ("I got tossed out of 15 or 20 games a year"). Stock, Stanky now says, "taught me to control my temper." This may be giving Stock too much credit, but he did teach Stanky that being thrown out of games hurts...
Touchy Subject. In Douglasville, Ga., as H. L. Parr started to sketch a picture of the devil his minister had asked him to make for a church meeting, a rip-roaring electric storm broke out, lightning struck a cable post, knocked out Parr's switch box, put out his lights and tore up his water pump...
...annual Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta, Ga., probably holds more memories, happy and unhappy, than any other in the world. It was there that Gene Sarazen shot his famed double eagle, holing out with a 220-yd. wood shot for a two on a par five hole, to tie and later win in 1935. Last week Old Pro Sarazen, now 50, carried away another memory: a "shocking" eight, five over par, on the short 12th hole. For the first time in 30 years of tournament play, Sarazen quit in disgust. But not Sam Snead...