Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They'd know that jaunty saunter 0anywhere. Bob Hope comes onstage with the cocky glide of a golfer who has just knocked off three birdies for a 68 and nailed Arnold Palmer to the clubhouse door. The crooked grin spreads wide, the clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops...
Without claiming his handicap, Hope has beaten Ben Hogan over nine holes, has tied Arnold Palmer. Once, he took $1,800 from Sportsman-Builder Del Webb, who now says, belatedly: "When you play with Hope, keep your hand on your wallet." Dolores Hope, a 13-handicap golfer herself, says she won't play with Bob again until he pays her the dollar she won in their last game; Bob just grumps. Jackie Gleason says that "Bob's only departure from sanity is his insistence that he can beat...
Like most duffers, Henry Hook tried everything. He bought Jack Nicklaus golf clubs, Arnold Palmer golf gloves and Ben Hogan golf shoes; he memorized Gary Player's Positive Golf, watched Dow Finsterwald's Golf Tips on TV, and visited a Sam Snead Driving Range three times a week. He used balls with rubber centers, steel centers and liquid centers, switched from a cash-in putter to a bull's-eye putter to a mallet-head putter. And he still couldn't break 100. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I played worse last year...
Slightly costlier (by about $20-$45 for a full set of woods and irons) than steel, aluminum-shafted clubs have received impressive testimonials from the pros. Arnold Palmer used them to win this year's Los Angeles and Tucson Opens, is now marketing his own line of clubs. Billy Casper, Sam Snead, Gary Middlecoff and Julius Boros all are experimenting with aluminum clubs, and George Archer claims that his new aluminum-shafted driver gives him an extra 15 yards of distance on every tee shot. That, says Archer, helps account for the fact that...
Thanks to Chicago grandmothers like Mrs. Potter Palmer, the impressionist-loving grande dame of Chicago society in the 1890s, to say nothing of grandfathers like Hardware Heir Frederic Clay Bartlett, who gave the museum Seurat's La Grande Jatte, the Art Institute today is the possessor of a 19th century impressionist and postimpressionist collection among the best in the U.S. Under rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.), Harvard-honed Charles C. Cunningham, 57, who took over as director a year ago after 20 years at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum, the museum has hewed to a policy...