Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other civic problem worked up so much sentiment and spleen. "Dogs that are tied up and fenced continuously will become excited and grieved," warned grieved, excited Attorney Philip Rossman, the Denver dog's best friend. "On behalf of Rusty, my old Irish setter," the Denver Post's veteran Statehouse Reporter Bert Hanna wrote a misty-eyed protest: "It will be the end of Rusty. He could not live under those restrictions . . . When this law is passed, he will pass quietly away...
...Hogan was bushed. The battered old (42) veteran of the golf-course wars limped into the locker room, slumped on a bench and grabbed for a whisky and water. "If I win this one," he said, "I'll never work at it again. It's just too hard on me to get ready any more." He seemed to have earned his rest. After four rounds on San Francisco's tough, tree-lined Olympic Club links, the "Mechanical Man" from Texas had posted a score of 287-seven over par. The fifth U.S. Open title that he wanted...
...eighth he sank a soft, putt for a two; Fleck and his hot putter matched the birdie. On the eleventh Hogan picked up a stroke with a par four; Fleck promptly took it back on the twelfth. Going to the 18th, the bone-weary veteran was one stroke down. There was still a chance, but he hooked his drive off the high tee into thick, impossible rough to the left of the fairway. He needed three frustrating wedge shots to dribble clear, another to reach the green. A nervy, soft, downhill putt after his pitch to the green was wasted...
Born. To Robert Taylor, 43, veteran Hollywood leading man (Many Rivers to Cross?), and Ursula Thiess, 31, German-born cinemactress (Bengal Brigade): their first child (her third), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Terrance. Weight...
Died. John Graham Dowling, 41, veteran overseas reporter, TIME bureau chief in Buenos Aires and former (1950-53) bureau chief in Singapore, World War II Chicago Sun correspondent in the Pacific Theater, son of Comedienne Ray Dooley Dowling, stepson of Actor Eddie Dowling; in the crash of a Panair do Brazil plane; at Cuatro Mojones, Paraguay...