Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went out of Snead in the third round. A blustery wind sent scores soaring. Hogan, imperturbable as usual, had a 74. Snead, playing later and knowing what he had to do to keep the lead, couldn't do it. He shot a 77, sending golf's two topflight players into the final round tied at 214 apiece. Said Hogan, discussing his chances with a tight-lipped smile: "The low score will...
...Country Boy. He graduated, from Yale Law School in 1927, and was a good lawyer right from the beginning. He turned out to have a special way with juries that brought him a bid from the topflight Chattanooga law firm of Sizer and Chambliss. "Keef handled a jury like a country boy," said one of his ex-partners recently. "He would establish himself as a country boy, then recite the facts and lead the jury along. He used language the jurors could understand. He never tried to be eloquent or quoted poetry...
...authors: Jack Lait, aging (69) editor of Hearst's New York Mirror and onetime topflight Chicago reporter, and the Mirror's 47-year-old Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer, who had a brief brush with fame when Frank Sinatra knocked him down, supposedly because Mortimer had called him names...
...world three-cushion billiard title. Masako is cue-tall (5 ft.) and light as chalk (96 Ibs.). But her skill can make three ivory billiard balls do nearly everything but rattle Banzai! She will need all her wizardry for the next fortnight to beat out her nine topflight male opponents. The favored defending champion, 64-year-old Willie Hoppe, who was a billiard prodigy at seven, is still the greatest player of them all; he still practices five hours a day to keep the form that has topped the heap perennially since 1906 (when Willie won his first world billiard...
...young mother has her baby, and snuggles down in her hospital bed for a few days of rest. What does she get? Most often a lot of unnecessary frazzle, a topflight gynecologist told the Chicago Medical Society last week. Fumed the University of Michigan's Dr. Norman F. Miller...