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...long-pull score in the history of the game: an 18-hole average of 69.26, With five tourneys still to go, he had almost doubled the money-winning record of $19,534.49 established by Sammy Snead in 1938. Byron Nelson was the perfect pro, and occasional lapses with his putter merely proved that he was human...
...getting different distance by lengthening or shortening his backswing. Once he knows the range, he can drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first bounce.) His one weakness is with the putter. He is inclined to stroke a short putt too hard, and is more likely to sink a 20-footer than a three-footer. He knows and bemoans this frailty, but a bad session on the greens never fails to ruffle his manufactured composure...
Secretary Goodall, a Congregationalist, was turned down for missionary work because of poor health. So he became the London Missionary Society's secretary for India, the South Seas and Papua. He likes to putter in his garden, play the violin, go to the theater with his wife, a doctor. He reads Anthony Trollope, Charles Lamb, John Donne, can take Hemingway "in small doses." On his office wall is a photograph of himself taken in India. It shows Mr. Goodall in shorts, squatting before a bearded Indian Christian. Says the International Missionary Council's new secretary: "That is symbolic...
Unable to attend the Lowell House play for the first time in years, President emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell '77, missed what the Bellboys' press releases claim was the sight of the century, when House Master Elliott Perkins '23, was towed across the stage by shot-putter Jack Bonner '43, dressed in diapers. It was all part of the production, "Lysistrata...
...putter and ball he used on the final green were auctioned...