Word: putters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
When Ivy transferred to the University of Illinois from Northwestern last fall, he insisted on freedom to putter in his laboratory. At Illinois, he is working (with 20 research assistants) on at least a dozen projects, including a "physical environment" laboratory to study effects of cold and high altitude, an institute on the diseases of old age, research on the kidney, on electrical treatment of infantile paralysis...
...after getting three up on his lanky rival, energetic Smiley Quick ran our of gas. They were even-Stephen after 36 holes. On the 37th Quick's trusty putter betrayed him, and he blew an easy two-footer and the match...
...yards farther than Mary's. Mary's unorthodox swing, which her father, a golfing dentist, refuses to correct, looked pitifully inadequate. But the closer she got to the green, the deadlier her game became. The best stick in her bag was a battered 15-year-old putter, with which she sank two 35-ft. putts. Babe fell two holes behind in the first three and could not catch up. Exit the Babe...
...been robbed by the rule book (it cost him a stroke when his caddy accidentally kicked his ball). His toughest competitor all winter, Ben Hogan, the little man with the deadly grin, had also looked like a winner, storming up the fairway to the last two holes. Then his putter went cold; he missed a two-footer on the last green. That finished...