Word: palmer
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Everett Martin, who wrote the cover story, also had files from correspondents in 32 places around the world to work from, so that this globe-circling hotel empire could be seen in the round. Martin himself spent the summer of 1946 working in Hilton's Palmer House in Chicago, and once mistakenly sent a letter from the girl friend of a hotel executive to one of the guests. When Hilton came through town, Martin was forbidden to touch the mail. A sound executive decision, Martin now agrees...
Less than two months ago, his game in tatters, golf's No. 1 money winner, Arnold Palmer, quit the pro tour to think things over at home. "Every time I turned around," he complained, "somebody was writing my obituary." But last month, rested and relaxed, Arnie beat Paul Harney in a play-off at New York's $100,000 Thunderbird Classic. He then tied for first in the U.S. Open, losing the play-off to Julius Boros. And last week Palmer found himself in a third straight tie - this time with Tony Lema and Tommy Aaron...
Before the 18-hole playoff, Palmer blithely climbed into his own brown-and-white Aero Commander and flew home to Latrobe, Pa., "to get a change of socks." Back next day, he birdied three of the first six holes, shot a four-under-par 67, and won easily. For his work, Arnie collected $23,400 -$22,000 for winning the tournament, $550 for finishing fourth in a prelimi nary pro-amateur, plus an $850 cut of the play-off gate receipts. All told, in three short weeks Arnold Palmer had earned a cool $54,000 in official purses...
...along, clicking off his drives, punching his irons low into the roaring wind, taking a bogey here and there, but mostly getting his par. After 72 holes he was nine over at 293. No one did any better. With Brookline's bogeyman making their lives miserable, both Arnold Palmer and Jackie Cupit also wound up with 293. And so the Open went into a three-way playoff...
Next day's 18 holes were over almost from the start. An all-night bout with the G.I.s left Palmer weak and weary; on the first tee, he duck-hooked his drive deep into The Country Club's barbed-wire rough. Cupit hung on a bit longer, but the tension caught up with him on the third hole, where he took a double-bogey six. Boros, playing safe, sure "money golf," turned the front nine in 33-two under par. By the time the three players finally got within TV camera range on the 15th hole...