Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grande Allée. It gives him a chance to surround himself with his family, of whom he never tires. (On a New Brunswick holiday this summer, the St. Laurent party totaled 27 ?sons, daughters, in-laws and grandchildren.) In Quebec St. Laurent also finds time for golf (over 100), his only sport except flyfishing. At the Royal Quebec Golf Club one day this summer, St. Laurent went out without a caddy. Said one of the pros, who might also have been summing up St. Laurent's political career: "Why does M'sieu St. Laurent need a caddy...
...that kind of tournament, with high winds and rain confounding the form charts. Bull-shouldered Bob ("Skee") Riegel, the 1947 champ, upset Toledo's golfing virtuoso and tourney favorite, Frank Stranahan, before getting belted unceremoniously out-of action himself. Willie Turnesa, youngest of golf's seven famed Turnesa brothers and defending amateur champion, got his in the semifinals...
...betatron's first patient, who is 72, had cancer of the larynx, rooted about an inch beneath the skin. It was bigger than a golf ball and was spreading to the lymph glands in his neck. He had spent hours at a time racked by uncontrollable coughing. His sense of taste was gone. And he was losing weight. The cancer was too far advanced to be operated on. Unchecked, it would grow until it killed him by strangulation...
India celebrated the anniversary of independence by announcing new and stricter austerity measures. India is still basically a hungry land; the government has launched a drive to raise more food. To highlight the food drive, plows ripped through New Delhi's viceregal golf course. Governor General Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, no golfer himself, posed behind a team of bullocks...
Nights Are for Sleeping. At 16, Shirley May France is too young to remember the 1920s, but she was making U.S. oldsters remember mah-jongg and miniature golf, This Side of Paradise, the Black Bottom and peephole speakeasies. Specifically, Shirley May intended to swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year...