Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Away." Last week TIME Correspondent Sam Welles toured South Korea and got a net impression of hope-hope in the midst of danger from within and without, from Right and from Left. His report...
...undistinguished steel and brass implement, hammer-headed and weighing 16 oz. It has been causing Sam some embarrassment, because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...
After beating Johnny Palmer (3 and 2) in the P.G.A. final last week, Sam was hugely enjoying his new eminence as current king of the links. The car bringing him to the Celebrities Tournament at Washington's Army-Navy Country Club was duly escorted by motorcycle cops. As he changed into working clothes (electric blue slacks and yellow T-shirt), a fellow competitor, General Omar Bradley, came over to shake hands. "I've been reading a lot about you," grinned the general...
...Sam, who has never smoothed off all his hillbilly edges, wriggled with shyness, protesting: "Aw, naw, general. But I've been reading a lot about you." After posting a 131 in the Celebrities Tournament, Sam struck out for Chicago...
There the established stars and the survivors of 1,302 lesser golfers who spent last week qualifying* would fight it out in the U.S. Open, the tournament Sam Snead called "the daddy of them all." Whatever happened (in two other years he had fallen apart on the greens after having the big prize within his grasp), Sam was certain of one thing: Stan Curtis would never get that putter back...