Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next four years I would like for our country a President who is not a playboy, majoring in the game of golf and minoring in the affairs of state...
...warm Indian summer afternoon last week, a vigorous, white-haired man, caddying his own golf bag with an aluminum tow cart, strode briskly down the fairways of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Sporting a jaunty white cap, grey flannels and a checked shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbows, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent neither looked nor acted his 74 years...
Where, came a voice out of a crowd in New Jersey, had the Democratic candidate for the presidency picked up his suntan? "Not from playing golf," grinned Adlai Stevenson, "but from preaching the Democratic gospel in public places." Other voices sounded out of other crowds: "We like Ike!" Stevenson replied: "I'd trust him with anything but public office." In Morristown, N.J. he spotted a picture of Eisenhower behind a window grille across the square. "Surely," he cracked, "there must be a more appropriate place for the President than behind bars...
...rare. Heretofore, it has nearly always proved fatal. Surgeons considered two operations for stitching up the ruptured valve, decided against them as offering no real hope of success. Then a visiting Swede. Dr. Hans Erik Hanson, suggested plugging the tunnel with a plastic sponge shaped like a long-stemmed golf tee. That was in June...
While it suffers from being more didactic than the play, the movie most conspicuously lacks the understatement which the play's single set for instance, made possible. The camera ranges after Tom as he goes to the beach, the golf course, the school pajama party, and even to the rooms of Ellie, the local prostitute. The difference is that the movie's director, Vincente Minelli, seems intent to extract every bit of emotion, or--as the ads suggest--"sensitivity" from events that were only spoken of in the play. The apparent eagerness of both the writer and the director...