Word: pinnings
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...Jack's too, apparently. On the final day he rattled off four birdies in five holes. The par-four sixth hole presented a problem when his second shot caught a 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...
...influence on the quality of the French press, which has detectably improved since the venal prewar period when the news columns of nearly any paper could be bought. It has been argued that Hachette's omnipresence discourages the rise of new papers. But it is not easy to pin the blame on Hachette. While it is true that newspaper circulation has declined since the war-by 2,000,000 in Paris and a like amount in the provinces-there are many contributing reasons: TV, the new emphasis on leisure pursuits, and even Charles de Gaulle, whose stability in office...
...complete cutaway costume also includes black and gray pin-striped trousers, a gray waistcoat, and black leather shoes. Once upon a time a beaver hat--consisting of an opera hat crowned by beaver fur--was worn with the cutaway. But now the beaver hat is rarely seen...
...stood proudly at the plate in his pin-stripe New York Yankee uniform, listening to the roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...
Once the series began there were several indications that the Yankees' mantle of invincibility has been ill-sewn this year. Whitey Ford, The Indomitable, was quickly dominated, as were the fabled hitters in blue pin strips. The threatened storm in the ninth inning falled to produce the famed "five o'clock lightening." There was hardly even thunder...