Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is no real surprise, since the two men have been close personal friends since they met two decades ago. Billy has often dined at the Nixon apartment and joined him for occasional rounds of golf. In 1964 Nixon told Billy's biographer that Graham might have made an able President, and he has praised him as "a great student of history with a rare perspective and insight." In a recent interview in Good Housekeeping, Nixon credited Graham's advice as a determining factor in his decision to seek the presidency...
...Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, because of his deep religious faith (Hatfield is also a devout Baptist.) At his Pittsburgh Crusade last month, Graham introduced Nixon to the audience and praised him for his "generosity," "tremendous constraint of temper," and even "his integrity in counting the score" in golf...
...away parties." George Frein, a St. Louis priest who married an ex-nun in June, has been hired by Archbishop Leo F. Dworschak to teach religious studies in North Dakota. "There has been no hostility at all," says Frein. "The weekend we arrived the pastor stopped over in his golf clothes and welcomed...
Died. Tommy Armour, 72, golf's battling Scot, who won all the big tournaments in the 1920s and early '30s; after a long illness; in Larchmont, N.Y. Gassed at Ypres in World War I, Tommy was strong enough by 1920 to win the French Amateur, in 1921 moved to the U.S., where he turned pro and swept his era's top tournaments-the Canadian Open (1927, '30, '34), the U.S. Open (1927), the P.G.A. (1930) and the British Open...
After college, Murphy latched onto a promotion job with Florida Tile Industries, which meant round after round of businessman's golf. "I looked around," he says, "saw that all I was doing was playing golf anyway, so I decided to turn pro." For a professional prospect, Murphy had two serious faults: weak irons and his fade. But Florida Tile President Jim Sikes agreed to sponsor him, and last fall Murphy entered the P.G.A.'s Approved Tournament Players' school. Only 30 of 111 aspirants won their A.T.P. cards; Murphy was among them...