Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Setting his feet squarely on the edge of his desk, adjusting his green eyeshade and squaring his handkerchief, the Vagabond wet his fingers and started leafing through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...
...week, Milwaukee's Dr. Walter P. Blount told the 16th annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons about a new method of treating lame children. Shy, intense Dr. Blount, 48, was the hit of the convention. So many doctors were jotting down notes that the crowded green and gold grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House looked like a classroom. Dr. Blount's method: using stainless steel staples with ¾ inch prongs to retard growth of the longer...
...come in behind Lloyd Mangrum and nine others. But as he sank his final putt for a birdie, he promised: "Things are going to get better." A week later, Ben won the Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...
Jimmy hooked his drive toward the rough, but the ball hit a spectator and caromed back onto the fairway. His next, a strong approach shot headed for the back-of-beyond, hit a second spectator and dropped on the edge of the green. Demaret took a par for the hole and gained another stroke on Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit...
With today's issue of the CRIMSON the 1949-50 Executive Board takes office. Members of the incoming board are John G. Simon '50, President: Sedgwick W. Green '50, Managing Editor; Thomas C. Simons '50, Business Manager; Charles W. Batley H '50, Editorial Chairman; Jacques E. Levy '49, Photographic Chairman; Bayard Hooper '50, Associate Managing Editor; Edward M. Cowett '51, Advertising Manager; Donald Carswell '50, Sports Editor...