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This marketing affirms a musical as something special, says Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the Shubert Organization, which owns or operates 17 of Broadway's 36 theaters, including those housing Mackintosh's hits. Canny showmanship, Schoenfeld adds, gets the media to convey the same idea: "When we cut a hole in the roof of the Winter Garden for Cats, it became news in hometowns across America. Events are what the public responds to. They want a sense of occasion...
...Finch broke off their own practice regimens to watch the ballistic display. A few minutes later Daly headed for the course. His first drive was a monster 364-yd. shot, followed by a 280-yd. 3-iron blast. In short order, Daly turned the 644-yd., par-5 first hole, the longest on the P.G.A. tour, into an ordinary...
...fences style is something more: a genuine athletic phenomenon. The man who stunned the best golfers in the world during the P.G.A. Championship at Crooked Stick combined impossibly long tee shots with soft irons, and dead-on putts that left no openings for his rivals. During the final four holes, a stretch when even veteran players get the willies and lose major tournaments, Daly dealt with his mounting nervousness by playing harder. On the final hole of the tournament, he says, he took his biggest swing of the entire competition. It landed in the rough; Daly salvaged...
...responsive chord in galleries. Moreover, Daly is a rarity: a self-made player. He says he learned to hit the ball by watching Jack Nicklaus on TV, by looking at instructional diagrams in golf magazines, and by experimenting with what felt natural as he played on a rural nine-hole course in Dardanelle...
...recession? That's a real possibility, say economists. The government reported last week that the economy grew at a barely measurable 0.4% annualized rate in the second quarter. But it may be premature to celebrate the arrival of good times again. "Usually we shoot right out of an economic hole," says economist Allen Sinai. "This time we're crawling...