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Unlike the current crop of U.S. pros, who vary from businesslike to grim, Locke whistled while he walked. He had time for such small amenities as replacing divots, and applauding when an opponent sank a long putt. When his own steady putter went haywire last week on the 17th green of the $15,000 tourney at Fort Worth, he grinned and scolded himself: "Very shaky, very shaky playing indeed...
Inside-Out. Suspicious U.S. pros did not believe that he was only 29 (a weather-beaten, tweedy fellow, he could pass for 40), until he pulled out his press clippings. Sure enough, in 1935 he was the 17-year-old boy wonder who won the South African Open. His playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist...
Individual Senators knew most of the pros & cons by heart; perhaps most of them had their minds made...
...little trouble. The newcomers, working in large groups at freight yards, netted several tons a night and sold them through a central organization at fixed prices. They disliked small-time operators like Klaus, who undersold them. But after a little rough stuff, Klaus agreed to conform to the pros' price schedule, and everything went smoothly until the first disastrous signs of spring...
...Crumbs & Rats' Nests." But the pros really pricked up their ears over two presidential prospects; whose sudden upsurge of popularity with the pros last week coincided with some constructive advice on Republican policy. One was Massachusetts' young Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who warned that "the people did not vote for us so much as they voted against the things they did not like. . . . We were not put in office to put back the clock but in order to wind it up, get the crumbs and rats' nests out of the gears and get it going again...