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...still the same old methodical, plodding show that once prompted Lloyd Mangrum to say to Bobby: "You're the only man I've ever seen who looked like he was shooting an 80 and came in with a 70." In Chicago last week, the man his fellow pros call "Old Muffin Face" came in with something better than...
...keenest political observer alive in the 20th Century, in a typically Churchillian phrase, once privately called the men in the Kremlin "those ruthless and bloody-minded professors." No Westerner knew much about what went on inside their grisly university, where last week the faculty was doubtless researching the pros & cons of the next possible moves. The West did, however, know what the campus looked like...
...bomb could make the Times go to hell overnight: its momentum as a publishing enterprise and its staff of trusted old professionals could carry it on for a long time no matter whom death took from the publisher's office. But Sulzberger is credited, even by his old pros, with being a big force in keeping the Times cruising at standard speed. He regards the Times as a "public trust" and works unceasingly to keep it that way. His wife, who began working at the Times during the wartime manpower shortage and now puts in three or four days...
When Bobby Jones helped design the National golf course at Augusta, Ga., he made it fairly comfy for the average golfer, tough for the topflight pros. Most of the hazards seemed to have been placed just where they would penalize the game's best long-ball hitters. Last week, in the annual Masters Tournament, most of golf's top amateurs and pros agonized around Augusta's 6,900-yd. course through four days of overstuffed scores...
...burning along like a Texas grass fire; he tied Sam Snead and two others for first in the Bing Crosby Invitation, took a third in the Los Angeles Open, won the Rio Grande Valley Open and was up in the money at Long Beach, Phoenix and Tucson. But to pros like Kansas' Dick Metz (who thinks Burke will win the National Open) all this was less impressive than the youngster's background...