Word: snead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury The Speculative Significance of the Inner Action of the Market under Sam Snead's How to Hit a Golf Ball? An antithetical quandary faces the Communer with Nature who vows that reading is the curse of civilization and goes off to a remote isle to stare into space. After four days of memorizing every label in the medicine cabinet and pantry...
...know I can shoot a 65," Jack announced, and when he laughed his way to a 67 in practice, even his fellow pros were ready to concede the $25,000 winner's check. "He should be an even bet against the field," Billy Casper insisted. Sighed Sam Snead: "With his power, Nicklaus starts out five strokes ahead of the rest...
Otherwise, Schulz leads just the sort of life his readers would suspect. His favorite hobby is golf. He attends the annual Bing Crosby Invitational tournament, aspires some day to play with Sam Snead: "I keep using his name in the strip, hoping that he will write to me. But he never does." Neither he nor Joyce drinks, smokes or swears. Like his creation Charlie Brown, who never uses an expletive stronger than "Good grief!" Schulz insists: "I've never used a cuss word in my life. I don't even like ugly words like stink or fink. Perhaps...
...Snead and Shirley Englehorn: the $40,000 Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome golf tournament, at Sebring, Fla. Taking turns hitting the ball, Sam and Shirley, who won one tournament and $19,582 on the ladies' tour this year, shot a final round 65 to beat Dow Finsterwald and Marlene Bauer Hagge by one stroke. Shirley's contributions to the partnership included a 25-ft. putt for one eagle and a 50-yd. wedge shot into the cup for another...
...Snead, who would rather catch a marlin than lick Ben Hogan, says that going after blacks is "like hunting elephants." Another expert big game fisherman, S. Kip Farrington Jr., calls the black "the glamour boy of all fishes-and the most difficult to catch." Farrington should know: he once held the world record (a 1,135-pounder), and he has also spent 94 consecutive fishing days without boating a single marlin...