Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year's 37 tournaments, could wind up 19th down the money list and still take home $42,522.11. Ladies' golf, with its smaller purses and fewer tournaments, is quite something else. Unless the gal happens to be Kathy Whitworth ($28,658 in winnings last year) or Mickey Wright ($196,382 in twelve seasons) pro golf is strictly egg salad-and sometimes not much of that...
...purses came to $2,595, barely enough to keep a girl in nylons. Was Sandra discouraged? She sure was. But she refused to quit. A St. Louis teaching pro helped her work on her swing, moving her stance closer to the ball for more length and accuracy. She asked Mickey Wright to help with her putting; Mickey caught some minute flaws and dispensed some sisterly advice. "She gave me tips to slow me down," said Sandra, "little things like remembering to take a deep breath...
...weeks ago, Sandra went north for the tour's biggest tournament-the $20,000 U.S. Women's Open at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. Nobody paid attention the first day when she shot a 75, wound up in fourth place, four strokes behind Mickey Wright. Then Mickey and the other stars started ballooning to the high 70s in the 90° heat. And there was Sandra coolly shooting a steady 74 the second day. Going into the final round she was actually ahead-for the first time in her pro career-with a one-stroke...
...PASS CONTROL by Mickey Spillane. 220 pages. Duffon...
...Mickey Spillane is a direct literary descendant of Dashiell Hammett, although it would be imprecise to stress the word literary in reference to Spillane. Hammett, who died in 1961, created the tough-guy private eye, who has since taken up permanent residence in the ghetto world of detective fiction, but none of Hammett's many imitators ranks lower than Mickey Spillane. Anyone who bothers to measure Spillane's latest Tiger Mann mystery against this posthumous collection of Hammett's Continental Op stories, first published in the '20s in Black Mask magazine, will instantly...