Word: sams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nielsen, Sam Straus of 3516 Primrose Street, Fort Worth, Tex.; Amon Carter Riverside Senior High, Fort Worth...
...over yet. Still out on Medinah's tough, narrow-waisted fairways, and needing only even pars to tie Middlecoff was Sam Snead. The grapevine buzzed that Snead was hot. "He's burning up that last nine," snapped Middlecoff nervously. "I'm betting I won't win. I'll bet you $10 right now that Snead ties me or beats me." Somebody took...
...next to last hole-Medinah's infamous xyth-balding, slope-shouldered Sam Snead stood on the elevated tee and squinted at the postage stamp green 193 yards away. Snead's tee shot was long, landed in inch-high grass on the apron. It was a simple chip shot, but Sam reached instead for the borrowed putter that had revitalized his game (TIME, June...
That time it was the wrong club. He banged the ball eight feet beyond the hole, missed the putt coming back for a one-over-par four. When Sam got no better than par on the 18th, he gave a horde of newsmen one glum look: "It was that damned seventeenth that did it." Gary Middlecoff just grinned and paid off his $10 hedge-bet. With a $2,000 first prize and the prestige that goes with being U.S. Open golf champion, he could well afford it. Snead had tied for second place with North Carolinian Clayton Heafner...
Hearth & Home. In Manhattan, Mrs. Betty Jo Hill, suing for alimony, told the court that her husband "ignored me completely and devoted himself exclusively to watching the television programs." In Denver, police learned that Private Sam Fowler, hospitalized with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...