Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pros (and a sprinkling of amateurs) readied themselves for the big push, the man who held the top spot by virtue of his temperament, tireless diligence and many more qualities, was slim, wiry William Ben Hogan, 36, of Fort Worth, the U.S. Open champion and one of the greatest tournament players in U.S. golf's 54-year major-tournament history...
...Till Hell Won't Have It." Hogan knows every foot of Riviera's 7,000-yd. course. Two years running he has won the Los Angeles Open there. And there last June, leaving a hare & hounds trail of half-smoked cigarettes in his wake, he won his greatest triumph thus far-the U.S. Open championship. He played Riviera as if he owned it; the caddies called it Hogan's Alley...
...raised few heated arguments. To all except a hardy band of diehards (who are now trumpeting their clairvoyance), it seemed that there was almost no point in going to the polls; the result was in the bag. The election would prove to the world that the world's greatest democracy could change leaders almost as easily as its motorists changed gears...
...onto the ice of drafty Chicago Stadium one night last week, a somber figure watched unobtrusively from a mezzanine seat. For the first time in 22 years, 47-year-old Frank Boucher was neither in a Ranger uniform nor on the Ranger bench. Boucher, one of hockey's greatest centers, had stepped down as coach of the last-place Rangers, though he would continue as manager. In his spot on the bench sat a big handsome blond in a polo coat, a member of hockey's first family...
...baron had lent them all to Dieckmann, and he had brought them home with him to St. Louis. All in all, to the tiny band of Diderot scholars it was the greatest discovery ever. It would mean a complete new look at the man Dieckmann holds was certainly "on a level with Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu." For students of the 18th Century, Dieckmann's find was beaten only by one other: the discovery of the Boswell Malahide papers (TIME, Nov. 29), which had also turned up forgotten in an ancient castle...