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Word: players (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning the 1954 Masters, fell in the first round. He had Charles Coe, the 1949 winner, for company. Last year's Runner-Up Bob Sweeney lasted little longer. Handsome Harvie Ward, 29, the San Francisco car salesman who is onetime British amateur and U.S. intercollegiate champion, Walker Cup player and low amateur in this year's Masters and National Open, gave even himself a rude shock by barely squeaking through his first match. Easily a favorite in the pre-tournament selections, Ward had to sink a 25-ft. putt on a 19-hole playoff to beat Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Hands | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Number three Crimson varsity tennis player Brooks Harris teamed with Tom Raleigh in the National Doubles Tennis Tournament in Brookline on Aug 15 thru 20. The due defeated a pair from Princeton and Yale but lost in the second round to the eventual winners, two Japanese players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...semifinal, against Seixas, Rosewall looked even better than he did playing for the cup. Vic never had a chance, and he seemed to know it. All he could do was make a gentlemanly speech about losing to a better player. It was Hoad who first upset the dope. Facing a rejuvenated Trabert, he took three games and then fell apart. He gave the match away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Better Than Ever | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument panel. Price: less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Models | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Webb-the big gun on TV's Dragnet-has directed and starred in, is pretty much the same old dum-de-dum-dumfounding stuff, but set in ragtime. Webb has cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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