Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jauntily, mingled with the high-ranking guests, and started tongues wagging. Afterward, Dewey and Mrs. Dewey were widely noted guests at dinner in the Statler Hilton Hotel, with the Nixons and Attorney General Bill Rogers and his wife. And on Saturday, despite chilling temperatures, Dewey and Nixon played golf together at Burning Tree...
After reporting that the President's daughter-in-law likes golf, dancing and horseback riding, one Indian newsman wrote delicately that "it is therefore hardly surprising that, though a mother of four, she has the figure and complexion of a teen-ager...
...times the Cotton Bay Club has looked more like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin Co.. manufacturers of military aircraft and missiles (Vanguard, Titan, Mace). In the past three years no fewer than 25 top-ranking Navy and Air Force officers vacationed on Eleuthera at Martin's expense...
...Bunker, Martin's board chairman, vehemently urged an open session, just as vigorously denied that there was anything unethical about paying the expenses of the officers. "I cannot conceive." said he, "that anyone could possibly believe men of their character and responsibilities could be improperly influenced by playing golf with me on Eleuthera." Another witness testified that the Internal Revenue Service had disallowed Martin's request to list the $18,000 in expense accounts as a business expense and a tax deduction...
...company now has 400 profit-sharing, nonunion employees, is worth $6,500,000. Married and the father of two daughters, Bannow sings a rousing first bass in a Bridgeport male chorus, the North Star Singers, has given up soccer with Bridgeport's Swedish Athletic Club to play golf. Traveling with his wife, he will spend two weeks out of four on the road next year on N.A.M. projects. In talks on inflation, he will emphasize to his audience that he has raised his prices only once in the last 20 years...