Word: locker-room
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...various stages of flightiness, 172 of the nation's best golfers teed off last week on Cleveland's Canterbury Club course, in the first Open since 1941. The old hands had brought along some liquid companionship for locker-room nerves. The new school of war-born par-smashers caught the taut feeling too, though most of them did not smoke, much less drink. The standard cure was Bromo-Seltzer; in advanced stages phenobarbital...
...regulation 72 holes, three early finishers sweated it out in the locker-room, tied up at 284. One was Byron Nelson, who would have won had he not been robbed by the rule book (it cost him a stroke when his caddy accidentally kicked his ball). His toughest competitor all winter, Ben Hogan, the little man with the deadly grin, had also looked like a winner, storming up the fairway to the last two holes. Then his putter went cold; he missed a two-footer on the last green. That finished...
...subject, digging out the facts for his own benefit and the instruction of the vast audience won by his tales of microbe-hunting, hunger-fighting heroes of the test tube. Last week he published his findings, in a mixture of laboratory slang, movie-travelogue lyricism and man-to-man locker-room candor, in The Male Hormone (Harcourt Brace...
Died. Francis Schmidt, 58, fast-talking, hard-driving football coach of Ohio State's 1939 "razzle-dazzle" Big Ten champions; after long illness; in Spokane, Wash. He once spurred his Buckeyes to a long-sought victory with a classic locker-room line: "Michigan boys put on their pants one leg at a time same...
Jackie Cooper, Max Baer and others give these parts the earnest locker-room charm which is one of the best things about action pictures. In this heavily masculine maritime setting Cinemactress Wyatt is as out of place as a ladies' first-aid drill on Henderson Field...