Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Generation. The golf circuit belongs today to the younger men who have the stamina and ability to play in pressure-packed tournaments week after week, ten months of the year. With the 1958 tour two-thirds complete, three of golf's Young Turks hold a long lead in the earnings list: Arnold Palmer, 28, of Latrobe, Pa. ($40,478), Bill Casper, 27, of Chula Vista, Calif. ($38,332), and Venturi, 27, of San Francisco ($37,044). Palmer has finished in the top ten in 13 of 24 tournaments, Casper in twelve of 23, Venturi in 14 of 24. Palmer...
...Like his younger brother John (sometime Governor of Connecticut, now Ambassador to Spain), "Cab" Lodge followed the beaten Brahmin path to Harvard. By taking extra courses, he finished up in three years. "I disliked the academic atmosphere," he says. "I wanted to get going." He graduated cum laude despite the speedup, explains that he did it the easy way, by majoring in Romance languages, taking advantage of the fluent French he learned at schools he attended in Paris...
Limited Ecstasy. What was clear on that opening night was that the show appealed to a minority, primarily younger artists and critics. Their welcome was ecstatic. "This exhibition was necessary," exclaimed Madrid Artist Manolo Millares, 32. "We've been wanting it for years." The 200-odd aficionados who milled around the huge canvases at the opening rapidly began sorting out impressions. Jackson Pollock was the most important, they decided. Mark Rothko's shimmering panels of color were their favorites, followed by the works of Clyfford Still (TIME, Nov. 25), Franz Kline, Philip Guston. Sam Francis. The qualities most...
...check this theory, Dr. Kohman suggests, is more thorough analysis of tektites. Tektites that came from a stellar system much younger than the solar system should, for example, contain traces of short-lived elements (e.g., plutonium 244 and curium 247) that have long been extinct on earth...
Cocktail Time shows that though now (to use his own words) "a spavined septuagenarian," P. G. Wodehouse still has more to offer than most unspavined zanies of younger generations...