Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decorative inspiration. Amid the pageantry of the ball, bejeweled women and their white-tied escorts moved from room to room, each of which was styled after a TIME Inc. publication. There were, for example, imitation gold coins and a wheel in the FORTUNE Room, putting greens and a miniature golf course in the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Room -and plenty of vitality at the LIFE Goes to a Party...
...Outerbridges, who date from 1620. They are so distinguished and numerous that a somewhat tired joke describes Bermuda as "a series of islands connected by Outerbridges.'' Not lightly is an Outerbridge expelled from such venerable institutions as the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the Mid-Ocean Golf Club, the St. George's Dinghy and Sports Club. But last week an Outerbridge was out. The explanation: Alexander Stuart Outerbridge, 34, had married a Negro singer from Broadway...
...Atlanta pickup came, both the President and Mamie gazed closely at the face of their old friend, Golfer Bobby Jones, as though trying to fathom Jones's present state of health (he has long suffered from a spinal ailment). Ike laughed happily when Jones assured him that "the golf course is in fine shape." Minutes later the scene switched to Houston, with the crowd roaring, "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You"-to which Ike briskly tapped time with his foot. A wide-eyed Texas housewife, Mrs. Calista Schneidau (a mother of six), delivered her little speech...
Item: Industrialist James Gority, late of Adrian, Michigan, has bequeathed $5,000 to Notre Dame to make available to undergraduates courses in golf and bridge. Mr. Gority considered a knowledge of these games a real asset...
...University administration's inherent conservatism might well scotch such an ambitious program, but if one of Harvard's alumni who has achieved fame and fortune through the medium of golf or bridge would follow Mr. Gority's example, the College could take its rightful place beside Notre Dame on the frontiers of education...