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...kills Hope to concede a putt, too. Most players will do so if the distance between ball and cup is "within the leather"-the length measured from the bottom of the handgrip to the club head. Not Bob; he always insists on measuring with whatever club has the longest grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...instant after the President's head was shattered by the bullet. But Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, who sprinted up from behind and leaped onto the presidential car, later told the Commission what happened after he heard Oswald's first shot: "I had a hold of the handgrip [on the rear of the limousine] with my hand, when the car lurched forward. I lost my footing, and I had to run about three or four more steps before I could get back up in the car. The second noise that I heard had removed a portion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Jackie | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...mail. Sometimes K. & S. mailed out unsolicited merchandise, gambled that enough people would send in their money to turn a profit. Often Koolish mailed out punchboards, furnished the merchandise prizes for the lucky winners. He spread out to candy (Chicago Mint Co.), counter devices such as peanut vendors and handgrip measurers (Pierce Tool & Manufacturing Co.), silk stockings and insurance. Koolish was so successful that he made a fortune now put at $4,382,348; he also built a fat record of complaints with Better Business Bureaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Winning Numbers | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Through the bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Lobbyists | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...gear shift is a handgrip extending from the cowl instead of a lever from the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ruxton | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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