Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been acclaimed Golfer of the Year twice; he has picked up titles in Panama, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina. He has played for bus fare in local Chamber of Commerce matches and for five figures in the big, well-promoted, postwar tournaments (e.g., the Tarn O'Shanter, the Palm Beach Round Robin...
...clubs, Snead still has one deep desire: to win his first Open. He has been acting very much like a man who expected to win. In Augusta (TIME, April 19), he won the Masters, defeating his old bogey Hogan in a brilliant play-off.- And at the Palm Beach tournament in May, he won with a sizzling 338 for five rounds. Recently, he sent in his entry for the British Open in July-obviously a bid for the professional golfer's "Grand Slam" (P.G.A., Masters...
Thimbleful. In Palm Beach, Fla., charged with drunken driving, Caddy Donald Jackson was fined $100 despite his offhand denials: "All I had to drink was five shots of whisky and eight bottles of beer...
...Paul Hawley, the American College of Surgeons has been urging county medical societies to crack down on ghost surgery and fee-splitting. Last week the San Diego society did so. It slapped a one-year suspension on Physician Egbert Morris Hayes of Palm City and Surgeon Wesley Walters of Chula Vista. This would not keep them from practicing, but barred them from leading hospitals in the country...
Twenty minutes later they found him, 75 yards up the road. He had been killed by a Communist land mine.* In Hanoi, while a military honor guard stood by his casket, the French northern-front commander, General René Cogny, awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre with palm leaf to Robert Capa, 40, the first U.S. correspondent to be killed in the Indo-China war. Said Cogny: "He fell like a soldier. He deserves a soldier's honors...