Word: putters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was familiar to Britain's Burton: raw, grey and windy. But that didn't make up for five golfless years in the R.A.F. ground force. When his tee shots were straight and true, his putter was erratic. At the end of 18 holes he was six down. Scores: Nelson 71, Burton...
Mild-mannered Theophilus Shickel Painter, a geneticist, likes to peer through microscopes, putter in his water-lily garden and hunt in season. As shy as a deer, he makes a fetish of avoiding publicity. But last week Professor Painter, who had been acting president of the University of Texas since 1944, saw and heard his name everywhere he turned...
Sometimes, between the great actions in the yearly battle for food, Gus will putter about his fruit trees. He likes to look off east toward the Evangelical church, where, as a boy, during the interminable sermons, he traded jackknives behind the pews, and where rain, snow or shine the Kuesters still worship every Sunday. He likes to see the pine-and cedar-sheltered church graveyard, a tranquil reminder that the life which the earth gives must in the end return to the earth. There two generations of his neighbors and family are buried...
...After his drive hooked into a clump of bushes at Fresh Meadow and nestled against a fence, Nelson used the back of his putter with a left-handed swing, chipped the ball 100 ft. through shrubbery onto the fairway...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Alfred C. Blozis, 26, big (6 ft. 6 in., 250 lb.), towheaded champ shot-putter (his stillstand ing indoor record: 56 ft. 4½ in. in 1941), ex-pro football star (New York Giants); by German machine-gun fire when he waded through hip-deep snow to look for a missing comrade; in France's Vosges Mountains...