Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Learning Manners. On the very first day of the rugged match play on the 7,051-yd. course, a 19-year-old youngster named Ronnie Gerringer, from Newport News, Va., set the tone of the tournament. Paired with 38-year-old Charlie Coe, Gerringer was the picture of polite deference. "I told my daddy before I left home that I considered it a privilege to play a gentleman like Mr. Coe," said Ronnie shyly. "I thought maybe I would just learn some good manners about how to play in a major match...
...well-deserved popularity should have been enough to freeze any first-year man. But then in the British Open, next month, Nicklaus shot a disastrous, not-to-be-recovered first-round 80 while Palmer was burning up the course, and golf's wise heads wondered how good the youngster really...
...When the kids on the corner had an argument, Everett "would use words that had the other boys shaking their heads. They'd tell him, 'You don't even know what those big words mean.' But he did. He had ambitions from a youngster on. Play and pleasure, that was secondary...
...Nyet!" cried Teacher Serge Kryzytski as one youngster produced a wrong answer. "Da!" he said with pleasure to another. Twelve intense boys and girls around the big table fished for answers. They were doing arithmetic-in rapid-fire Russian, a subject they had begun only three weeks before. By that time, the youngsters were midway in a course that usually spans a full year. Such is the pace and point of a remarkable summer session at proper St. Paul's School, which has opened its doors to bright kids from public and parochial schools all over New Hampshire...
...have happened to his 471 "graduates." Many of them had never reckoned on being able to go to college, but now find themselves sought by the most prestigious campuses. This month 39 colleges and universities sent recruiters to look over St. Paul's summer talent. Mused one youngster: "You'd think we were star football players...