Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The fellow who made a mint writing about his adventures as a professional amateur sportsman now takes up tails and triangle for an insider's view of the workings of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra: "The Secret Musical Life or George Plimpton...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). For the season's opener, Van Heflin fishes for marlin off Chub Cay in the Bahamas, and Bing Crosby and Phil Harris hunt sand grouse in Tanzania...
John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is "Australian to my boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy...
...figure on walking shorter distances, sitting in living-room comfort and enjoying a better view of the action than ever before. Latest proof is the 19,000-seat Forum in suburban Inglewood, Calif., ten miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The $16.5 million Forum is the brainchild of Millionaire Sportsman Jack Kent Cooke, 55, who decided to put up a new home for his Los Angeles Lakers pro basketball team and his new Los Angeles Kings hockey team. In fact, Cooke only won the franchise for the Kings by audaciously promising to have the arena finished in a breathtaking...
Without claiming his handicap, Hope has beaten Ben Hogan over nine holes, has tied Arnold Palmer. Once, he took $1,800 from Sportsman-Builder Del Webb, who now says, belatedly: "When you play with Hope, keep your hand on your wallet." Dolores Hope, a 13-handicap golfer herself, says she won't play with Bob again until he pays her the dollar she won in their last game; Bob just grumps. Jackie Gleason says that "Bob's only departure from sanity is his insistence that he can beat...