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...network prime time-nine hours in all-than any other producer. The Munsters, The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, and The Virginian are all in the top 20. NBC will on Jan. 30 add another MCA show called Big Three Golf, a weekly continuing match between Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player. MCA also presents Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock, Wagon Train, The Kraft Suspense Theater, Broadside, 90 Bristol Court and McHale's Navy. At least 22 TV programs are now being shot on the Universal lot. Nor has all this activity crowded out the company's commitments...
...sportswriters, it came up with a 1964 All-America Golf Team. It was a little tricky, because golf-man v. himself-is hardly a team sport. But that was solved by rooting through the golfer's bag and picking players for their proficiency with specific clubs. Jack Nicklaus thereby became Driver of the Year-a masterpiece of circumlocution, considering that he was good enough with all the clubs to win $1 13,284 this year...
Jack and Arnie were having their own contest: there was Palmer, in the clubhouse, with fourth money ($1,500) already in the bag. That meant that Nicklaus had to finish better than third -and, by the skinny-skin-skin...
...missed putt cost Brewer second place, dropped him into a tie with Nicklaus worth $1,900 to both players...
Which brought the official P.G.A. totals for 41 tournaments to $113,284.50 for Nicklaus, $113,203.37 for Palmer.-Yet for Nicklaus, playing his third season as a pro, 1964 was full of disappointments. True, he won four tournaments. But he failed to win a major championship, though he finished second three times-to Palmer in the Masters, to Lema in the British Ooen to Nichols in the P.G.A...