Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, after Frankie and Ava (and a dozen reporters) finished a cozy Mexican holiday (TIME, Aug. 13), Sinatra went to work in a Reno nightclub to make some money toward his forthcoming divorce (Cracked one Hollywood wit:"He's earning while he's yearning"). Ava stayed at nearby Lake Tahoe and came to hear him sing. Sinatra meekly told the press: "I think you can safely say that Miss Gardner and I will be married...
...Netherlands, Golfer Gerard de Wit is in a class by himself, has won the professional championship five times. Last month he had his first look at tournament golf, U.S. style. Back in The Hague last week, still a little dazed by it all, he told his countrymen about Chicago's "world championship" tournament (in which he finished last, with a four-round total...
Golfer de Wit also noticed some other differences in the way the game is played at home and abroad. "The grass was higher, much thicker than it is in Holland. I found you have to hit the ball over there. Over here we stroke the ball and the ball rolls. Here we concentrate on teaching people how to swing. In America they concentrate on the hitting. I saw one guy go almost off his feet. If we see somebody do that here...
Concluded De Wit: "It's a lucky thing I didn't go to Chicago expecting to win. If American pros come here to Holland to play, I think they'll miss the noise. They'll be able to concentrate more, but they'll lose their fighting spirit...
Arthur Godfrey is a favorite of "the Middle Majority woman* [who] will seldom admit publicly or individually that she enjoys any form of 'crudity,' and will say that Godfrey's wit isn't up to her moral standards. . . . In the morning, with no one in her home to be shocked, she can wholeheartedly join in on the studio laughter and fun. At night, with the husband and children around, she isn't so free but she still enjoys...