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...qualified for the Masters. He had been the choice of former Masters winners (who have one invitation to give) mostly on the strength of his upset victory over Amateur Champion Harvie Ward in last month's San Francisco city championship. Sent off, appropriately enough, with Amateur Billy Joe Patton, who led the field to the halfway mark two years ago, Venturi did everything right. His drives were true, his irons crisp and sure. Not once did he take more than two putts a hole. But he was being pushed hard by some tough pros: the defending champ, Dentist Cary...
...Running under ideal conditions at Bakersfield, Calif., Trinidad's Mike Agostini, a Fresno State College sophomore, ran a straightaway 220-yd dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack...
...PROMOTER THRIVES ON THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE CONSUMER CREDIT COMMUNITY; HE IS PHOTOSENSITIVE, AND IN THE GLARE OF TIME'S SEARCHLIGHT WILL SOON DISAPPEAR. PRICE A. PATTON CHICAGO...
...Quarreler. But 67-year-old Fritz Schäffer is used to irritating allies. A prewar lawyer and leading politician in Bavaria, he was picked by General George Patton as the first postwar Minister-President of Bavaria. Soon Schäffer was quarreling with the U.S. occupation authorities because he insisted on hiring ex-Nazis to staff his office. He needed men of ability, he argued, and the question of their Naziism was irrelevant. Patton agreed, but General Eisenhower did not. Schäffer went on hiring Nazis anyway, was discovered, and in the ensuing uproar,* Eisenhower ordered...
...president of the new club, W. Louis Patton '57, yesterday clarified a misunderstanding about the sponsorship of the address, and affirmed that the HYDC is presenting it. The "Kefauver for President" Club, however, will begin membership solicitation immediately following the speech, he added...