Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like old times for the oldtimers vacationing on the Riviera. The Duke of Windsor stepped out for a wind-and-rainswept game of golf with his old friend, Belgium's exiled King Leopold (see cut)^; later on, some of the old gang dropped in for dinner at the Windsors. Winston Churchill came with his wife and daughter Sarah; Leopold came with wife Princess de Rethy, son Prince Baudouin and daughter Princess Joséphine Charlotte. Rounding out the party: Rumania's ex-King Michael and wife Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
When Ben Hogan quits tournament golf, he wants to own a stable of race horses. Meanwhile, after twelve years of living in hotel rooms, he wanted a home. He prefers California. Says he: "Anybody who doesn't live in California is a victim of circumstances." But because Valerie Hogan still prefers Fort Worth, that's where he bought his new Colonial-style house three months...
Then, Ben Hogan began to ease up on his solitary practice lessons. Said he: "I've learned how to play golf." His recent book, Power Golf (A. S. Barnes; $3), tells most of the golf tactics he knows-but not the one he discovered that day at Fort Worth. Of that one he says: "I won't even tell my wife...
Like any good businessman or golf pro, Ben Hogan loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...
...planning to spend some time in it. He will not make the full 1949 winter tour. After playing in tournaments at Los Angeles, Del Monte, Phoenix and maybe Long Beach, he will hurry home and try to find out how non-tournament golfers live. "It isn't the golf, it's the traveling," he says. "I want to die an old man, not a young...