Word: golf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other improvements over the rude camp life of World War II. Food was better, mud and duckboards were missing, and television sets, golf courses and swimming pools were close at hand. But many an old soldier, eyeing the young inductees, had an idea that they would soon find themselves in the Same Old Army anyhow...
...twinkled the New York Star, "was trying to recover its aplomb." But it was still reeling, said the Star, from the news that tall, lissome Joanne Connelley was going to forgo her debut and get married instead. The man of her choice was Robert Sweeny, 37, an ex-amateur golf champion, ex-combat pilot, and onetime heavy beau of Babs Hutton and Lady Stanley...
John Barton Townley, 34, is a rich Englishman with a Falstaffian laugh and a weak heart. Because of the heart, his doctor advised him to give up golf and rugger. So Townley, having studied the racing sheets as well as law at Cambridge, bought some race horses. Last week, at Newmarket, his weak heart thumped and bumped under a strain that might have told on stronger...
...three months, he would putter around his new home in Houston. Said he: "I'm tired of traveling, not golf...
...Atlanta, during a demonstration to show schoolchildren what to do in case of fire, seven firemen were overcome by smoke. In Clarkston, Wash., Golf Professional Joe Durgan, showing Pupil Howard Melcher how to swing a golf club, shot his first hole...