Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robbins, 56, the 47th U.S. Seniors Golf championship, with a record four-under-par...
...golfers-and some of the best from abroad-were grousing about the rugged rough, the grainy greens and the cannily placed traps on the 6,927-yd. Oakland Hills course at Birmingham, Mich. The gripes took on added weight when Defending Champion Ben Hogan himself took a six-over-par 76 on the first round, for a dismal 19-way tie for 41st place...
...Locke. In the third round, Hogan's 71 gained three more strokes on Locke, then in a tie for the lead with Jimmy Demaret. Going into the final round, Hogan teed off early, wound up by giving the others something to shoot at: a spectacular 67, the first par-busting score of the tournament. Under the pressure of Hogan's blazing finish, Locke misfired to take a 73, finished third (behind Clayton Heafner); Demaret blew himself to a sky-high 78, finished in a tie for 14th...
Courtin' Time (book by William Roos, based on Eden Phillpotts' The Farmer's Wife; lyrics & music by Jack Lawrence and Don Walker) is par-or at any rate, pardonable-for June. It is one of those cheerfully mediocre musicals whose chief virtue is that it has no crushing vice...
Every Member of Parliament dies twice -once in the way of all flesh, but once, earlier, when he must rise to make his maiden speech. A polite mumble is par for the course. Only once in a blue moon can a new member move the old House to astonishment, amusement or anger...