Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hogan grinned. When Smith asked him, finally, if he thought he could win the forthcoming Los Angeles Open, Hogan, who had laid off golf for eleven weeks, said: "No, it takes at least one tournament to school your swing under pressure after a layoff." He proceeded to verify his prophecy by tying for tenth, and then winning last week's $10,000 Bing Crosby Invitation tournament...
...Hogan was the 14th cover story† that Marshall Smith has written for TIME'S Sport department in the last four years. An ex-prep school swimmer and football player, he confesses to an insider's knowledge of only one sport: horse racing (his father was a horse owner and trainer who made the circuit from Cuba to Montreal for 15 years). Smith, who is 34, came to TIME five years ago via his native Baltimore's Evening Sun, the Providence Star-Tribune and Journal, where he wrote sports and features for seven years...
...editors of TIME believe that all of their news columns should be of interest to all readers, and Sport, therefore, has to give the news, satisfy the experts among TIME'S readers, and be clearly understandable to the uninitiated, as well. That is not an easy assignment, and Smith spends considerable time out of the office (e.g., the 1948 Olympic Games in London) keeping abreast of a dozen sports, getting the color, the background, and the "inside" details, that are vital to a successful TIME Sport story...
...story gives him a chance to examine a sport, as well as a champion, in considerable detail. In the case of Ben Hogan, a number of people had to be seen before the story assumed its proper focus. After his five days with Hogan, whom he liked and respected, Smith invited the golfer and his wife to come out to the house the next time they were in New York City. However, he added a note of caution : "You may not want to after you've read the cover story." As of last week, it looked...
...Paris, Marjolin often works a 14-hour day before getting home to his wife and two children in Neuilly. Mme. Marjolin is a U.S. girl from West Virginia, the former Dorothy Smith...