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Undismayed by Ike's golfing slump, Ed Dudley, Augusta National's pro, rated the Eisenhower game "good in all departments." Ike, said Dudley, must be classified as a long-ball hitter since his drives regularly carry 225 to 230 yards. Practice has brought his putting which used to...
At the Louisville final last week, Jim Turnesa met Melvin ("Chick") Harbert, 37, a slam-bang hitter who had also failed as a P.G.A. finalist (against Jim Ferrier in 1947). Harbert's booming drives consistently outdistanced Turnesa in the morning 18 holes. At the lunchtime break, Turnesa, after getting...
Both had played fine golf to reach the final over the famed Prestwick course. But in the first part of the final, both lapsed into a duffer game. Stranahan repeatedly pounded into the rough, got into half a dozen bunkers and four traps. Jittery Harvie Ward unhappily flubbed his chances...
The other characters are sketched in lightly but clearly: an ex-German Communist so embittered that his only need is to kill Russians; a gentle Ukrainian professor dreaming of the purity of his suppressed native language while he entertains homeless orphans with fantasies of great feasts: an eleven-year-old...
Ground Swell. Chamberlain credits the Freeman's upsurge to a "political and psychological ground swell in our direction," and he hopes not only to ride it but to help influence it. In the '30s, when Chamberlain was a young stalwart of the left wing, he was well aware...