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...That Hagen Girl (Warner) begins as a sociological case history and ends as a soap opera. The case: a wealthy smalltown family smuggles daughter home from somewhere on a night train. The doctor comes and the windows to daughter's room are barred. The town correctly guesses that she is insane. The same train has also brought a middle-aged townswoman and a baby...
...Color. Leo Durocher, the holler guy, has added very little to baseball's respectability. But at a time when sport was empty of color-and the splashes of color made by Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Walter Hagen had faded-he was as refreshing to the bleachers as a bottle of beer on an August afternoon...
Said white-haired ex-Champ Tommy Armour, who played against Hogan last week: "Like Joe Louis and Walter Hagen, he'll never quit till they carry him out. They may be able to beat this boy in the muscle, but not in the mind...
...round went favored Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan, who had beaten the pros several times. Next day finished off the other two: Bud Ward, winner of the last U.S. Amateur in 1941, and out-of-practice Gary Middlecoff, an Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with a comic-strip name, Smiley Quick...
...eleventh hole (Dogwood), Jones hooked into deep trouble. Kibitzer Walter Hagen, along for the walk, advised Bobby: "Take your time at the top of your swing, as you did when you wrecked me and Gene Sarazen. . . . Get lazy again." Jones did, and played the last seven holes in even par. Next day, Bobby edged Byron one stroke with a 72-his best competitive round in a dozen years. But his final score for 72 holes: 302. He finished in 32nd place...