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...tournament named for him and played on his home course at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., aging (46) Sam Snead, one of golf's most brilliant (and most erratic) pros, tore the Greenbrier course apart, had eleven one-putt greens, posted a fabulous 59. Eleven under par, it was the lowest score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Though he has blown big leads in his time, this one was too much for his competitors, and Snead coasted to an eleven-stroke victory...
...only one client hanged. Laird's parents left West Virginia for Keswick, Calif., where he was born. They died when he was five; Laird returned to Fayette County to be reared by his grandmother, aunt and uncle. The uncle, Dr. William R. Laird, adopted him. He attended Greenbrier Military School, King College in Bristol, Tenn., and West Virginia University, where he received a law degree in 1944 and made friends with a fellow student, Bill Marland. Marland, now 37 and governor of West Virginia. chose Laird to fill in after Senator Harley M. Kilgore died last month...
...healthful, sun-blessed desert." They also talk loftily of their policy of accepting only "selected guests." Last week the National Association of Attorneys General, which had planned to hold its annual convention next month in the Camelback, decided to meet in stead in West Virginia's famed Greenbrier Hotel. Reason: the Camelback's slogan of "Selected Guests" turned out to be a euphemism for "Hardly Any Jews Allowed...
...salary (for two weeks' work) and made a down payment on a cheap set of irons. At the Cascades he had few customers, plenty of time to practice. Within two weeks Snead could beat both Homestead professionals. In 1935 Freddy Martin, golf manager at the rival Greenbrier. spotted Snead. For $45 a month, room & board, he lured Sam across the mountains to the Greenbrier. (With the exception of one year at Shawnee-on-Delaware and the 2½ wartime years he spent in the Navy, Sam has been headquartered at the Green-brier.) Says Martin, who has a native...
Last year he missed a score of 59 on the Greenbrier's championship Old White course when he flubbed a two-foot putt...