Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME'S Sport editor Marshall Smith flew to Fort Worth, Texas to get Ben Hogan's story for the first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house...
...golf, except when a direct question was asked. One of them, a naive query about putting, produced a horrified "You're not going to say that in your story?" from Hogan. Perfectionist Hogan began to worry and, later, complained: "You're getting this all mixed up." Said Smith: "Look, your game is golf; this story is my business. Let me handle...
Most biographers begin their books with a bow to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Brown, without whose patience and generosity this book would never . . . etc., etc. Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, who was brought up a cavalryman in the reign of Franz Joseph of Austria, includes a jab of the rowel: "I wish to express my admiration for the courage of those who thrust upon me their uninvited advice on a subject of which they had no knowledge, and which ... I avoided accepting...
...Smith justified his choice as a starter by Coach Bill Barclay, sharing Harvard scoring honors (9 points) with John Rockwell. But the work of the pair went by the boards in the course of the evening, as Columbia, paced by Norm Skinner with 23 points, grabbed an early lead and was never headed...
...defending league champions, and the fourth circuit defeat in succession for the Crimson. Columbia has lost only one league game. HARVARD (49) g f p Rockwell, lf 2 5 9 Gabler 1 4 6 Petrillo, rf 0 1 1 McCurdy 2 0 4 Smith, c 3 3 9 Prior 4 0 8 Gannon, lg 1 0 2 Davis 2 0 4 Covey, rg 2 1 5 Crosby 0 1 1 Totals...