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Iron Man was right. Erratic and emotional, Arnold Palmer is at once exciting and exasperating; his patented, last-gasp finishes have given golf some of its brightest moments. In the 1960 Masters, he birdied the last two holes to beat Ken Venturi by a stroke. In the 1960 U.S. Open, deep in the pack after three rounds, he fired a last-day 65 to win. This spring in the Palm Springs Golf Classic, Palmer birdied five straight holes on the final round to beat Gene Littler. "I can always tell when Mr. Arnold is ready to make his move," says...
...Biggest news for sailors is Ratsey's refinement of the holed spinnaker, the Venturi. The sail has a series of horizontal slots across its top half. The breeze flowing through the slots shoots downward, thus by counteraction pushing the sail itself upward and providing extra lift. According to Designer George Ratsey, the slots also operate to reduce the "knockdown" or heeling effect on close reaches. Price: 25% higher than conventional spinnakers...
...been sold in a city that also supports two other legitimate theaters. Most of the Fisher's offerings will be secondhand Broadway but Detroit can look forward after The Gay Life to two more special events: the road opening of a new musical called The Crime of Giovanni Venturi (with the Metropolitan Opera's Cesare Siepi), and the pre-Broadway trial of Richard Rodgers' No Strings...
Died. Lionello Venturi, 76, Italy's goateed, golf-fancying master art critic, who wrote with equal enthusiasm of Jackson Pollock and Piero della Francesca, believed in endless creative evolution ("To paint Gothic in 1400 in Florence was wonderful, but those still painting Gothic in 1450 were poor painters"); of a heart attack; in Rome...
...seconds). Son of a lawyer in Athens, Ohio, Finsterwald went to Ohio University, developed an all-round game to compensate for his slight, hollow-chested build (5 ft. 10 in., 160 Ibs.). Finsterwald's steady brand of play avoids the single bad round that can ruin aggressive players like Venturi and Palmer (who is Finsterwald's best friend on the circuit). "If Finsterwald ever gets that little extra spark needed to win," says Byron Nelson, "it will be difficult for anyone ever to beat...