Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salt from Philadelphia, who served as round-the-world navigator on his father's schooner and as a lieutenant commander in World War II, Baker still finds that every cover story requires a different trim of the sails. The main job in his Grace Kelly cover was to catch the cool, white-gloved elegance of a new kind of Hollywood star. With André Malraux it was to define the place of an elusive literary and political figure in the complicated world of contemporary French intellectualism. Other cover stories have been fast-breaking narratives...
Tribal Rite Playing a qualifying round on the rugged, wind-whipped links at Pebble Beach, Calif., a nervous young Nevada golf pro named Tony Lema tried too hard to recover from a bad lie, took a prodigious swing-and disappeared. He had fallen off an 18-ft. cliff. No one seemed surprised. This was the 16th annual performance of the West Coast tribal rite-complete with fairway high jinks and off-course bottle belting-known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur Golf Championship. Lema's leap was just the kind of accidental clowning that the crowd had come...
...Round of Parties. The best golfers in the U.S. had scrambled for invitations to "the Crosby." Big-name pros drew partners from a list of blue-ribbon amateurs that boasted movie stars, corporation presidents, politicians, even retired General of the Army Omar Bradley. "One of the greatest Americans of all time." said the announcer as he introduced Bradley to the crowd. "You don't expect me to hit the ball after that, do you?" asked the general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack...
...Mike Souchak, couldn't hit his hat and got lost in Cypress Point's tricky sand traps (on one hole a photographer ground his golf ball into the sand to make things a little tougher for picture purposes). He and Souchak failed to qualify for the final round. "I'm going snow-blind from sand," said Hope. "This is like The Road to Morocco...
...years, and S.M.U.'s hot record is the chief reason that the football-happy Southwest is taking a new look at the upstart sport of basketball. All around the conference, new field houses are bulging with fans of what many football coaches airily dismiss as "that round-ball game." Tangible proof of the new tradition at S.M.U. is the $2,250,000 field house off Mockingbird Lane completed this season. "We're not going to convert any dyed-in-the-wool football fans," explains Coach Hayes. "We're going to have to make our own fans...