Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texan Jack Burke Jr. had his own system for standing the gaff of five days of nerve-twanging match play in the Professional Golfers Association championship at Canton, Mass. He pretended that the standard 4½-in. cup was actually two inches larger. This happy delusion kept his chip shots sharp, his putting amazingly accurate. With the additional help of body English on the greens, Burke beat Florida's Ted Kroll 3 and 2, to become the only golfer besides Sam Snead to win the Masters and P.G.A. tournaments in the same year...
...short, by Texan Howerton's generous code, there should be hope even for those who violate the eleventh commandment, i.e., "don't get caught...
...Edmond H. Leavey, 60, was named president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., succeeding the late William H. Harrison. Leavey, a Texan and a West Pointer ('17) with a civil-engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic, taught military science at M.I.T. and served as chief engineer for WPA before going off to war. He commanded the troops building the U.S. base in northern Ireland, then became chief of the Mediterranean base section in North Africa before going off to the Pacific theater to become deputy Army commander of the Philippines. There he signed for the U.S. at the surrender...
...another 40 on the final nine. But at length, pressure told: Venturi bogied the 10th-then the 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th. On the 17th he did it again. On the 18th only a 20-foot putt for a birdie could save him -and he missed by a foot. Texan Jack Burke, the fast-finishing professional, was master of the Masters. The crack shot who had qualified for the National Open at 16 had finally won a major tournament...
McMahon's challenge took Murchison by surprise. The Texan's company, Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd., has held the pipeline franchise for almost two years, and Clint Murchison once grandly declared that the building of it would be "the major achievement of my life." But Murchison had trouble financing the deal. The line had to run through an uninhabited area of northern Ontario, which called for a subsidy from the Canadian government and a measure of acquiescence on the part of competing U.S gas companies...