Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower winced at the task before him. Responding to an overnight message asking him to telephone Secretary of State Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital, Ike climbed the stairs to his vacation headquarters above the golf pro shop at Augusta, sadly ordered the call put through. When Dulles came on the line, the President asked: "Foster, how are you?" Secretary Dulles replied: "I'm not getting better enough, and not soon enough, Mr. President." Then he added: "I believe we ought to move now." Slowly Ike answered, "I agree...
...President and his new ranking Cabinet officer turned away from the microphones at Augusta National Golf Course. With a wave, sport-jacketed Dwight Eisenhower strolled off, leaving Christian Archibald Herter, 64, to answer newsmen's questions. The "same team will carry on" at the State Department, he told them, and John Foster Dulles "will be available for consultation with the President, or myself, whenever he feels...
...seemed improbably strange that a man should be plucked from an out-of-the-way Carolina ranch by helicopter to be designated Secretary of State by a tee-bound President at a Georgia golf course, that strangeness was only characteristic of Christian Herter's improbable week and curious career. It seemed improbable that Christian Herter should come to be Secretary of State at all: he arrived at that lofty crag of responsibility by a meandering path, full of detours, unlikely twists and obstacles that he sometimes barely managed to clear...
Rollert, who likes to play chess or golf in his spare time, is faced with a real puzzler in Buick. No one knows why the '59 Buick has done poorly. Automen guess that it is too radically styled, too low and hard to get into, has a cramped back seat. In any case, Rollert starts with one big advantage over Ragsdale. Ed Ragsdale took over when Buick was at its peak. Ed Rollert's Buick has hardly any place...
Tournament of Champions (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The windup of the high-money ($40,000) invitational golf tournament at Las Vegas, with such shooters as Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., Arnold Palmer, Gene Littler and Gary Middlecoff gunning for the green...