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...youngster, he learned golf under the stern eye of his brother Homer, who showed him how to drive a ball toward a hole in a cow pasture, and gave him a kick in the pants every time he muffed a shot...
With his primitive clubs-and the pedagogy of brother Homer's foot-Sam developed his graceful and somewhat unorthodox swing. He never took a lesson, never hampered his free & easy game with the kinks and strains that often plague the rule-book golfer. At twelve, Sam took up caddying at the Homestead, studied the pros, and played the employees' course-nine tortuous holes on a mountainside called the "goat -course." The Sneads were poor (father Snead was a maintenance man in the Homestead's boiler room). In addition to caddying, Sam also worked as a soda jerk...
...finest piece of craftsmanship in the June Advocate is a translation by John Wilson from Euripides' Bacchae. Classics. Homer. Euripides. Bronson Potter. Not the Same...
Ever since June 1952, when Lawyer George North Craig of Brazil, Ind. went after the nomination for governor, Indiana's two Senators, Bill Jenner and Homer Capehart, have opposed him. Craig, onetime national commander of the American Legion, won the nomination, and five months later was elected by the biggest landslide in Indiana history...
...present has its pressagents as the past had its poets (Was Achilles really that good, or did Homer just make him seem so?), and the ballyhoo is plastered no more thickly around movie folk and politicians than around the men and animals who compete with the elements, with the clock, with weight or age or strength or with each other, in the name of sport. But a true champion's feats endure because of what the champion himself adds: an undying spirit of competition, an ability to inspire awe, a willingness to gamble on losing, the guts to lose...