Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he is hot, he can wind up on the tee and belt the ball a country mile. He can putt as if the ball had eyes. But nearly any pro, when he is hot, can do the same. The difference is that this year, sharpshooting Arnold Palmer, 30, has stayed happily heated up almost all the time. Ever since January, when golf pros began chasing a fast fairway dollar eastward from Los Angeles toward the big-time championships of spring and summer, Palmer has been cashing in at a record rate. By last week he had earned...
...Palmer's high-priced performance required both steadiness and flash. It took sure hands on the sun-baked courses of the Southwest, where the ball rolls forever if it is hit down the middle; and Palmer was on target often enough to win the Palm Springs Classic and the Texas Open. It called for a spectacular change of pace at Pensacola, where he came from behind on moist, slow Gulf Coast greens, banked on long, bold putts to rack up a seven-under-par 65 in the second round to take the tournament by a single stroke...
...tryouts: Defenseman John Mayasich, 26, a television-time salesman who once played for the University of Minnesota, and Boston's Cleary brothers-Bill, 25, and Bob, 23, a pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.) second-stringer named Jack McCartan, a former University of Minnesota All-America who liked to talk more about his feats as a college third baseman (.438 batting average) than...
...like to call unexplained outbreaks of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and a second type of upper respiratory illness, milder than flu, presumably caused by a virus of a different family. One or another of Los Angeles' varied plagues knocked out such widely assorted performers as Alfred Hitchcock, Lilli Palmer, Debbie Reynolds and Marilyn Monroe...