Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the semifinal round of the 21st annual Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Samuel Jackson Snead, 44, sneaked a look at the scoreboard and started with surprise. "You mean to tell me that ah shot a 74 and ah'm still leading this tournament?" drawled the balding West Virginian. "Man that must be a pitiful poor field out there...
...first question on the subject sharply illustrated the pettifogging nature of much of the talk about budget cuts. Asked William McGaffin of the Chicago Daily News: "Would you be willing to do without that pair of helicopters that have been proposed for getting you out to the golf course a little faster than you can make it in a car?" At the question Eisenhower showed more anger than most Washington correspondents have ever seen him betray. His face bleached, and then a flush of red spread upward from his neck. After a moment of dead silence he glared...
...helicopters were purchased chiefly to facilitate the President's trips from the White House to National Airport, which often involve delays and tie-ups in Washington traffic stopped to permit him to pass. But the golf question had been left hanging by Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty last month, when he said he would not rule out the possibility that the President might some time use a helicopter to go to Burning Tree for golf...
...Masters Golf Tournament (Fri. 5 p.m., CBS). The first of three successive days' telecasts at the same hour...
Several times the Schrievers moved, eking out a meager living, until in 1923 Mrs. Schriever got a job as housekeeper to a wealthy San Antonian who set the Schriever family up on a bit of his property beside the twelfth green of the Brackenridge Park golf course. Here the family developed a profitable sideline by opening a refreshment stand, selling home-cured ham sandwiches, Bavarian cheeses and soft drinks to the passing golfers. Ben hurled himself at his schoolwork, was a bear at mathematics, graduated from high school at 16 in the National Honor Society. In his spare time...