Word: putterers
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...being a latent 50-ft shot putter, though, Johnson is more reluctant to agree. "I might be, but I don't know," she says. "Before this year I'd never worked hard or put myself on the line, so I don't know what I could have accomplished...
...going to make a habit of setting records," the senior shot putter said...
...last year's money list, had discovered her affair, he had waged a personal campaign to disassociate Bogart Jackson from the world of professional golf. Bogart Jackson would return from a long round, and his shoes would be missing. Or his plane ticket. From time to time, his putter would be stolen--anything to upset his concentration or throw off his rhythm, the two essential things a pro requires besides a modicum of skill...
...Alaska and the whipping gales of Bristol Bay. It squirts through the Bering Strait and after two weeks reaches the most perilous leg of the 3,200-mile journey: the 270-mile trip from Wainwright on the western flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts with a shy grin: "Sometimes it's so shallow your ulcers start chewing each other...
...back-to-campus blue blazer with white piping, Ellen Putter could pass for a senior psych major at most Ivy League schools. But professors at New York City's Barnard College better not treat her like one. Last week Putter, 31, a graduate of the women's college and Columbia Law School, was named president of Barnard, Columbia's sister school. She thus becomes the youngest woman head of a major U.S. college. Actually, she has been acting president while on leave from a New York City law firm. Putter's no-nonsense managerial style...