Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheriff was at the door of '48, "the magazine of the year" (TIME, May 31). Owned cooperatively by 366 writers, photographers and artists, the digest-size monthly had cost its investors $700,000, was $150,000 in the hole. Last week Publisher Walter Ross decided to call it a day at '48½, with the June issue...
...close to the leaders with a 71. Next day he was presented to King George VI at the first tee (the first time a reigning monarch had ever witnessed a British golf championship). With his King watching, Cotton smacked a prodigious drive down the fairway. He birdied that first hole. Then he proceeded to tear Muirfield apart-green by green and fairway by fairway. His best round: a blistering 66, a record for the course in a British Open...
...fire. He has a system: "Any time I'm in a hole, I got confidence in that fast ball." He doesn't trust curves, he says, because lots of times curves just hang, and when they hang you're sunk. With help from his Boston Braves, he won, 7 to 6. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Braves were in trouble again. Big Bill went to the rescue, and was credited with...
...Golfers' Association championship in his grasp, Ben Hogan found the grind just about too hard to take. "I want to die an old man, not a young one," he told reporters. Every golfer in the big time-a businesslike gang that lives a life of tense desperation from hole to hole and tourney to tourney-knew just how he felt. The game had changed from the day of the great Walter Hagen, when a pro played in about 15 tournaments a year. Now it is a year-round business, in which only half a dozen do better than break...
...After St. Martin got a hole in his stomach from a shotgun blast in 1822, he lived 58 years, to the great profit of medical researchers. A doctor put food directly into his stomach through a flap, and got a close-up picture of digestion...