Word: littler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months still to go on the tour: Tournaments Dollars Won Won 1. Arnold Palmer 5 $85,545 2. Julius Boros 3 63,996 3. Jack Nicklaus 3 62,140 4. Tony Lema 1 60,963 5. Gary Player 1 46,665 6. Dow Finsterwald 1 38,438 7. Gene Littler 0 25,439 8. Tommy Aaron 0 22,734 9. Don January 1 21,089 10. Paul Harney...
...make its debut. Levin made up his mind that it would be one more case of jungle rot. "Don't tell me, let me guess," Levin wrote sarcastically in the Express, speculating in advance on just how bad the play was going to be. Infuriated. Producer Emile Littler withdrew his first-night invitation, but Levin cadged a ticket from a friend and got in anyhow. "Well," he wrote later, "I did see it-and it's absurd." Littler answered the gate-crashing critique with a law suit accusing Levin of trespassing...
...trial, Levin and the Beaverbrook newspapers capitulated with astonishing alacrity. They conceded that on first nights theater producers are entitled to invite or exclude anyone. The price for Levin's first-night ticket: $22,400 in damages and legal costs. "A great day for the living theater," exulted Littler. As for Signpost. despite mixed reviews it ran for a year in London, is now packing the house in Britain's provinces, has been picked up by M-G-M for $70,000 and will move to Broadway some time this year...
...week Shell's Wonderful World of Golf starts a series on NBC pitting American pros against foreign pros on foreign courses. It is so fussily produced that huge camera booms are camouflaged to look like natural vegetation. The host-commentator is Gene Sarazen. In the first match, Gene Littler plays against Scotland's Eric Brown at Gleneagles. Byron Nelson will take on Holland's Gerry de Wit at The Hague. The U.S.'s Dave Ragan will play against the Philippines' Celestino Tugot at Manila's Wack-Wack Golf Club. So it goes...
...reigning king got his revenge. His tee shots caromed 300 yds. and more down Rancho's rock-hard fairways, his approach shots died quietly inches from the pin, and his putts banged boldly into the cup. At first, other pros hogged the headlines: smooth-swinging Gene Littler led briefly; aging (52 ) Dutch Harrison flashed enough of his old form to take the second-round lead; and Art Wall, the 1959 Masters winner, shot a third-round 67, four strokes under par. But the gallery paid little attention. By the time Palmer teed off for his final round, three strokes...