Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born Dioguardi), a highly successful career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been helping Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in an attempt to control Manhattan teamsters...
...usually phlegmatic English turned out in milling droves to see Ben Hogan play for the first time on English soil. At the Canada Cup tournament at Wentworth, the galleries jostled each other (and Hogan); some fell from trees, and one man toppled off a ladder and broke his leg. Ben Hogan responded with a wintry smile, then knocked out three birdies on his first four English holes. "An amazing genius," cried British newspapers. Teamed with Sam Snead, Hogan won the cup for the U.S. and captured the individual prize for himself with a seven-under...
...year's winner, did not even qualify for the final two rounds. When the 51 finalists lined up for the last 36 holes on the lush green course, an affable, free-swinging Australian named Peter Thomson, 26, held the lead by a single stroke over Old Pro Ben Hogan, out for his fifth Open title. Rangy Gary Middlecoff, 35, the Memphis dentist, was only two strokes back, even though he had taken horrendous sevens to fill two of the cavities in the first two rounds. "If I'd been putting," said Middlecoff matter-of-factly after finishing...
...happened, Middlecoff had a fairly cool time of it. Limping on his game left leg, grim Ben Hogan, 43, cracked on the next-to-last green. Fidgeting with nervousness as he stood within grasping distance of his fifth Open title, Ben missed a three-footer, finished a stroke back at 282. Then the only other men Middlecoff had to worry about, Julius Boros of Southern Pines, N.C. and Ted Kroll of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., put themselves out. Middlecoff heard from a TV announcer that Kroll had flubbed his last chance on the 16th. Middlecoff grinned into a camera and told...
...three-under-par 69 to set a Masters' 36-hole record (135) for amateurs and tie Nelson's 14-year-old professional record for the halfway point in the tournament. In second place, Cary Middlecoff dropped farther back with a 72, for a total of 139. Hogan shot a 78 and was out of the running. Four were bunched in third place; in fourth, with 143, was Jackie Burke Jr. of Kiamesha Lake...