Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm air of southern Georgia, a pair of English setters dubbed Art and George stretched their legs after a ride down from Gettysburg, Pa., and sniffed curiously at the Southland smells. In Washington, clearing his desk in anticipation of two weeks of quail hunting, golf and bridge, the setters' master sniffed now and again in anticipation of a vacation in the same Southland. But whenever Dwight Eisenhower wandered, he was quickly pulled back from Georgia to global strategies. For the mood of Washington last week was wrapped around world affairs. At Ike's press conference, correspondents, subject...
...college that wishes to help its students enjoy the "Age of Leisure," to say nothing of success in business or politics, should not neglect physical education in skills of lasting value: golf, tennis, fly-casting, squash, etc. The advantages of such a program are recreational, social and eventually material...
...week's end Charlie Wilson retired from the battlefield for a while. He and Jessie joined the boss aboard the presidential plane, Columbine III, for a trip south. Ike was heading for a Georgia golf weekend, the Wilsons for a two-week Florida vacation. Asked why he was accompanying the President, Wilson replied: "I was invited along." Jessie Wilson smiled amiably, this time said nothing...
...pranced up 13 flights of stairs to have lunch with the National Press Club. Then he advised the jaded newshawks to get more exercise if they wished to relieve tensions and be as healthy as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Said Dr. White: "If the President hadn't played golf, he might have had the heart attack 20 years earlier...
...commemorate her "vast contributions to the cause of fair play," Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias received a posthumous award from the U.S. Golf Association: the Bobby Jones plaque for sportsmanship...