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...relaxed, has done all her winning despite a strikingly leisurely approach. "I guess I'm pretty lazy about practice. It's so hot here in the summer." In the cool of an evening, instead of hammering shots from a practice tee, Lesbia would just as soon putter around a miniature golf course, a practice which shocks graver golfing types. At the Broadmoor tournament, she flubbed around in 83 in practice. But when the chips were down, she was the tournament medalist with a fine 72. Explains Lesbia: "I never get hot or tired in competition...
...Scots were riled; they are proud of windswept Carnoustie, chiefly because of its jagged hillocks, fiendish traps and stubbly greens. One crusty old codger on a shooting stick spoke up for all of Scotland: "Hogan talks a bloody lot about the greens and a bloody lot about his putter; he should put the two together and shut...
Round One. On a sweltering day, Hogan appeared on the course dressed in a heavy cardigan sweater, explaining that he wanted to keep his ailing back warm. Back warm and putter hot, Ben blazed around the course in 67-never once going over par-for a three-stroke lead...
California Shot-Putter Parry O'Brien, who broke a distance barrier a fortnight ago with a world record toss of 59 ft,¾ in., set up a 60-ft. standard for himself at the Compton meet with another record heave...
...Time--but in any case, their choice is atrocious. Alternating between leaden stolidity and an eagerness which parodies the mannerisms of Julie Harris, his performance is a long dull thud from beginning to end. In fact, with Mr. Cooper tossing off his lines with the delicacy of a shot-putter, his soliloquies offer the most painful moments in the current theatre. Since John Van Druten's script has Isherwood on the stage almost every second of the play, the result is pretty appalling...