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...guilelessness. Gerald Ford, of course, "made golf a contact sport." Reagan "once broke 100 and that's pretty good for a man on horseback." Hope saves his real affection for celebrities little known for their low handicaps, including Humphrey Bogart and Ruby Keeler. The wildest amateur: Babe Ruth. The smoothest: Joe Louis. Even nongolfers can enjoy the gossip, the jokes and some 100 black-and-white photographs of performers and politicians. Although Hope claims that his scores are now closer to his weight than his age, his follow-through has seldom been better...
Instead, the ECAC rewards its top regular-season performers by re-seeding after each round of play, matching the top seed with the lowest remaining one and thereby ensuring that the No. 1 team—this year Cornell—has the smoothest road to a potential title. Should the majority of opening-round winners be culled from seeds five through eight, the Crimson and Colgate will both, because of that pairing method, face sub-.500 opponents separated by one to three points at season?...
...left shortly after the production. Past Crimson articles refer to the awards as “slick p.r.” and “publicity stunts”; in 1973, Crimson arts writer Dwight L. Cramer ’74 wrote, “The publicity engine runs smoothest in the Pudding’s absurd Man and Woman of the Year Awards...
...Democratic politicians seem to think the world will be swinging in such a manner for them if they just court Republican voters with Clintonesque centrism. But was it really his centrism that made Clinton the smoothest player in Washington...
...McGraw out of hand should first remember Arnold Schwarzenegger (or country singer Jimmie Davis, who served two terms as Governor of Louisiana) and then give some thought to the vagaries of country music. Nashville is perhaps the most protocol-obsessed U.S. city outside of Washington, and McGraw is its smoothest operator. He has sold 30 million albums (his latest, Live Like You Were Dying, entered Billboard's album chart at No. 1) without being excessively cornpone or mindlessly pop. In the process, he has done what his predecessor Garth Brooks could not do: reach an audience outside his genre while...