Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of 1930 invaded Essex County Club yesterday and fought a brief but inspired battle with 1,400 lobsters (each red monster weighed in at a full 1 1/2 pounds. Tusseling under the white circus tent, on the golf course, and in the tennis courts, the members of '30 were in their finest hour...
...golf, tennis, and baseball fail to occupy the reunioner at Essex, facilities will be ready for transportation to Singing Beach swimming and Manchester Yacht Club boat trips. Gloucester and Rockport tours are also scheduled...
...Intense and studiously silent, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Joe Conrad, 25, allowed himself only a low little pre-putt whistle to relieve the tension of the final round of the British Amateur golf championship. It was enough. Unruffled by the rain and hail that blew off the Irish Sea, Conrad staved off England's Alan Slater and won the match on the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's links...
...Selden Chapin, 55, to be Ambassador to Iran. Careerman Chapin, a wealthy, dewlapped sportsman (golf, sailing) and an Annapolis graduate, has knocked around the world for 30 years in the Foreign Service. In 1949, as U.S. Minister to Communist Hungary, he was accused of conspiring with Cardinal Mindszenty, declared non grata and thrown out of the country (Chapin dismissed the charges as "pure fantasy...
...Moderator Bryson. "Television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes," said Critic Brown. "A conversation has to be more than just chewing gum or wastage." Essayist Fadiman urged intellectual exercise. "You can cultivate the conversational muscles as you can cultivate the muscles that enable you to play golf or tennis," he suggested...