Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear Press Secretary Jim Hagerty relay by radio-telephone optimistic reports from Canberra. White House Physician Howard Snyder found the President coughing only occasionally. His head cold was easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead in tropic water. He ducked into bed at 9 o'clock, stayed abed nearly twelve hours, rose for a late breakfast (prunes, oatmeal, toast...
...Ocean Club overlooking Bermuda's blue-green waters, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan planned to eat together, drink together, perhaps golf together for four days. These old friends of World War II days (when Macmillan was British Resident Minister at Ike's Algiers headquarters) had no formal agenda but much on their minds. Their main problem was to reestablish, between two nations, the working relationship that was shaken by Britain's decision to throw in with France and Israel on Suez...
Patricia Jane Berg was bushed. The Titleholders Championship last week was the climax of the lady golf pros' long winter's tournament trek, and the rain-soaked, sidehill fairways of Georgia's Augusta Country Club course sapped the spring from Patty's 39-year-old legs. Between rounds she had to rub them with liniment; she even took an extra nap. "There's no doubt about it," she sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn...
...some youngster win an individual tournament. Such oldtimers as Patty, Fay Crocker, 37, Louise Suggs. 34, and Betty Jameson, 38, are understandably subject to fatigue. Veterans of nearly two decades on the road, they date back to the days when the late Babe Didrikson Zaharias boosted ladies' golf into the big time. The wonder is that they still win as much money as they...
...restore the blood supply to deprived muscle by: 1) partly closing the coronary sinus to keep the blood in the heart muscle longer; 2) deliberately irritating the surface of the heart muscle itself and the lining of the heart sac by scraping them with an abrader like a spiked golf shoe; 3) dusting irritant asbestos powder inside the sac; and 4) stitching a piece of fat (from the lining of the chest wall) to the sac when he closes...