Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative Wright Patman, ablaze with zeal to publicize his Lone Star State, brightened the week on Capitol Hill by giving away outsize match packets calculated to make moochers look before they lit up. The Patman specials produced: 1) 30 matches, 2) a map of Texas, 3) facts & figures about the state, 4) an outline of Patman's Congressional district...
...Snead was a dangerous second, with six wins and a 69.2 average. Such figures promised little less than perfection for last week's two-day battle royal between the two best golfers in the land. Perhaps it was because they played for charity instead of pay, but the match proved nothing more startling than that Snead and Nelson were equally human where strokes count most-on the greens...
Nelson, who can play championship golf with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson...
...main thrill for the pants-&-Paris-garter trade is Esther Williams ; she has the kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about at the breakfast table, and a nice, easy, assured personality to match. For music lovers, insensitive to such carnality, there is Lauritz Melchior, carnal in his own Falstaff-built...
...Varsity will entrain tomorrow morning for Providence, where they are slated to meet Brown in a return game. In their earlier match, the Bruins eked out a 6 to 5 win over the Cambridge squad...