Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost never completes a full 18-hole round, generally packing up his clubs after 9 or 11. Much of his pleasure comes from wagering on himself. "He'll bet only a dollar or two," says Crooner Bing Crosby, an able golfer and a recent Kennedy opponent at Palm Beach. "But an awful lot of negotiation goes on before the clubs start swinging. He works out the best possible arrangement before he makes a move." Between shots, Kennedy normally appears carefree, needling his partners with sharp quips. But last week his fairway stroll frequently turned serious as Press Secretary Pierre...
...Kennedy's swing is smooth; his stance is good, his grip is proper and his backswing is slow. He normally gets between 225 and 250 yds. on his drives, but he is troubled by a hook. He is often sharp with his short irons (on a recent Palm Beach outing he unnerved his companions by dropping an approach shot for a birdie 3 on the first hole), and his putting is excellent. He is weakest with his long irons. Says Crosby: "He tops the ball. There's a term we have for that-menacing the field mice...
...Worst of all, the girls were in dismayingly short supply, outnumbered 10 to 1 by the boys. Any small diversion-someone playing a bongo drum, a girl dancing the limbo-attracted hundreds of listless onlookers. Joseph Penar, a bearded student from Illinois State Normal University, shinnied up a coconut palm one day, for lack of something better to do. "When I got to the top," he reported, "I looked down and saw 300 kids standing around the tree, staring up at me. Anything that moves around here will attract a crowd...
Kicking off another busy week, Jacqueline Kennedy designated the nation's first curator of White House curios, also called on a woman with personal knowledge of the subject-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 88. The appointment of Mrs. John N. Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach, where Jackie lent especial cachet to a dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip...
Shortly after leaving Gettysburg to unlimber on Palm Springs' Eldorado links, Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted that he hadn't "a plan beyond this next stroke." But the lure of the pen soon proved mightier than the mashie, and the war chronicler-whose 1948 Crusade in Europe sold 1,500,000 copies and earned him $635,000-promised an updater. Ike's subject: "My eight years in the presidency and the lessons I believe can be drawn therefrom...