Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palestinian, the $57,100 Brooklyn Handicap, one of U.S. racing's oldest stakes (first running: 1887), over Sheilas Reward, by a length; in New York. ¶ David Stanley of Los Angeles, the national public links golf championship, over Ralph Vranesic of Denver, 1 up on the 38th hole; in Milwaukee. ¶Stella Walsh, 40, her own national pentathlon title, with a record 1,932 points; in Berkeley, Calif...
...booming drive and a well-placed approach shot left him 40 ft. from the pin on the 483-yd. first hole (par five). Burkemo, also well-placed, was in line for a birdie. He got it, too. Then Snead, taking dead aim from the fringe of the green, chipped into the cup for an eagle three. "After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven...
...pictures as rigidly as a tile floor. "There's an abstract under every Ayrton," he says. But his abstractions are well disguised. "I refuse to accept formal equivalents of a triangle for a breast, or two dots for an eye. I have no desire to gouge a hole through a woman's figure. Trouble is I'm so progressive I'm reactionary...
...Hole (Paramount), Producer-Director Billy Wilder's first movie since Sunset Boulevard, gleefully dissects human beings at their worst. The picture is clever, original, technically expert, and carries an occasional sharp sting of truth. But it runs a good idea into the ground and leaves a bad taste in the mouth...
...razzle-dazzle, Ace in the Hole is dogged almost from the beginning by its incredible central character, extravagantly overplayed by blustering, swaggering Actor Douglas. The story's premises, e.g., that the reporter could bulldoze a high-powered corps of newsmen, grow increasingly harder to take. At the end, the picture loses even its guile: it wrenches Douglas out of character, drags in some fortuitous violence to pay him for his sins, drags out a silly ending for shabby theatrical effect. Surer taste and a sense of restraint would have made Ace in the Hole something better than an exercise...