Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running. Rosburg, who grips a club like a baseball bat, sank a chip shot and 30-ft. putt for successive birdies on the 11th and 12th. But on the final hole he needed to sink a 40-ft. putt to tie. It stopped a foot short, and Bill Casper was the U.S. Open champion...
...Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second full season with Cleveland, he blasted 41 homers, just one short of matching Mickey Mantle for the league title...
...Mathieu Mategot's Cosmorama (86 in. by 161 in.) would brighten any bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...
...COMMERCIAL JET will be built by Douglas for short to intermediate (up to 1,500 miles) range, and 1963 delivery. The DC-9 will have four Pratt & Whitney turbo-fan engines, carry 68 first-class passengers at 600 m.p.h. Probable delivery price...
...great themes of 20th century fiction. Almost too familiar by now, the theme often bogs down in sentiment or sociology. One of the few writers who easily rise above these dangers is South African Novelist Dan Jacobson, and he proves it once again in his first volume of short stories. As in his novels (The Trap, A Dance in the Sun), Jacobson's writing is skilled, hard and sun spare. He uses the tensions between Negroes and whites as he would if they were the tensions of love or war, to reveal stress points of fear, weakness or guilt...