Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand Slam...
...golfer, one who could be expected to handle even the "Road Hole." Last week in the British Open, Palmer and the Road Hole fought a tense four-day duel. Palmer mastered the famed 17th-but not until after it had cost him his chance for golfing's grand slam...
...grand slam of the nation's most prestigious schools was without precedent in modern days, probably in history. No statesman or soldier-not George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, nor Dwight Eisenhower-has won all three honors in a single year, though many have managed it over the years. No one was more surprised at the coincidence than the schools them selves; like Macy's and Gimbels, they do not tell each other the names of their nominees. The only one who knew was Banker Black himself, and he had been keeping his secret in the best academic tradition ever...
...concerto by Leon Kirchner, Conductor Milton Katims will stop at' the Orpheum movie theater. There, before an audience of symphony patrons, he will engage the soloist of the evening, Pianist Leon Fleisher, in a three-game pingpong match. Katims may lose, for Fleisher has a widely feared forehand slam, but he expects to collect about $10,000 from spectators for the symphony's sustaining fund...
...fluffs, so much the better. The latest program with big duffer appeal is Championship Bridge, run weekly on film over 175 ABC stations by Bridge King Charles Goren (TIME cover, Sept. 29, 1958), and most of its ingredients are about as easy in TV production as a lay-down slam...