Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chaperon, of course: creaky old (34) Arnold Palmer, who, with a record $128,230 in the bank this year, seems content to let Jack take home the trophies as long as he takes home the jack. The only local tournament last week was something called the Fig Garden Village Open, and Jack and Arnie flew off to Paris to defend the honor of the U.S. in the Canada Cup-a kind of General Assembly of golf that matched two-man teams from 33 nations...
...green with a drive and a No. 8 iron, and sank his putt for an eagle. But after three days, the best that Jack and Arnie could manage was a first-place tie with Spain's Sebastian Miguel and Ramon Sota. Nicklaus was spraying his approaches, and Palmer's putting was, in his own word, "terrible." Grunted Nicklaus: "The prestige of Uncle Sam is at stake...
...trap 70 ft. from the pin. So he pulled out his sand wedge, swung-and blasted the ball straight into the cup. At that, the Duke of Windsor, watching from the edge of the green, tumbled straight off his shooting stick. "Greatest shot I ever saw," he gasped. Arnie Palmer yanked his ailing game together to fire a 34 and ensure the U.S. team a victory that was worth $1,000 to each partner. But Nicklaus' final-round 32 gave him a 63-hole total of 237-15 under par-and the individual championship. More status, more prestige...
Died. John Wellborn Root, 76, Chicago architect, senior partner of Holabird & Root, son and namesake of the co-designer of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, who himself changed the city's skyline in the '20s and '30s with the Palmer House, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings, pioneered in the use of glass-curtain walls with Milwaukee's A. O. Smith engineering building, which antedated Manhattan's celebrated Lever House by 25 years; of pneumonia; in North Falmouth, Mass...
...Club 47 has moved from its 47 Mount Auburn Street building to roomier quarters on Palmer Street, near the rear of the Coop. But though the address has changed, the name will stay the same--the site will be known as 47 Palmer Street by the consent of Cambridge officials...