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...everything else." Sam is inclined to agree. But in many a critical match Snead has clubbed his way out of seemingly certain defeat with a shrewd shot. Other 19th-Hole critics attribute his failures to erratic putting, but Snead at his best is as handy a putter as any topflight golfer. Some say that Snead's temperament (a "smoldering volcano," according to the New York Times's Arthur Daley) is not tough enough to withstand the grind of the Open. While it is true that Snead sometimes gives way to the sulks or the "yipes" (jitters...
...OUTLOOK is better than ever for this June's college graduates, especially engineers, accountants and business majors. A record number of companies are recruiting on campuses, and those who started after March are out of the running for topflight students. Main reason: number of graduates is down to 343,000 from 374,000 last year, and around 500,000 in 1949 and 1950. Beginning salaries offered are up around...
After quietly circulating two trial issues to admen, topflight sport figures, and others, TIME Inc. this week officially announced a new weekly magazine "to report and illustrate the wonderful world of sport." The first issue of the 25? ($7.50 a year), TIME-size weekly is planned for the second Friday in August, will come out every Friday thereafter. TIME Inc. is bringing out the first national sport-magazine weekly because of the new emphasis in American life on leisure-time activity and sports...
During the two-year search, Lefty and The Rabbit were kept at public expense in a $40-weekly suite in Brooklyn's topflight St. George Hotel. Why weren't they held in jail or sent to prison for stealing the revolvers? Because New York authorities do not trust their ability to keep order in their own penal institutions. They were afraid that Lefty and The Rabbit would be killed by a friend or hireling of Mazziotta's. Many times known murderers have gone free because the witnesses against them were murdered...
...seemed to be drifting when he entered medical school, it was there that he found his life work: "Heart study was my passion." Last week, celebrating the tenth anniversary of his Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, 57, ducked his head modestly as topflight cardiologists from Latin America, the U.S. and Europe blew him compliments...