Title: "Little Ice Water" in Time Magazine, Vol. LIII, No. 2, January 10, 1949 Author: Place: Chicago Publisher: Time, Inc. Date: 1949 Description: 96 pp. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, ads, etc. 11¼x8¼, original color pictorial saddle stitched magazine wrappers. Cover image features painting of Ben Hogan by Boris Chaliapin Ben Hogan Time Magazine cover issue, one month before his near fatal car accident. Only 11 months after the accident in which he fractured a collar bone, ankle, and pelvis, he returned to competitive golf. The sports section contains a 3½ page article (pp.52-54, & 56) about Ben Hogan's life, career to date, and his style of play. The article also explains his nickname "Little Ice Water," by the following: "He stands 5 ft. 8½ in. and weighs only 140 lbs., but he manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf...Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world." The lot also includes 1 issue of: The Golfer. Magazine. Vol. 2, No. 8. February 1951. Lot Amendments Condition: Wrapper edges worn, creasing at bottom corner, address label on front wrapper at bottom; very good. Item number: 245464
Title: "Little Ice Water" in Time Magazine, Vol. LIII, No. 2, January 10, 1949 Author: Place: Chicago Publisher: Time, Inc. Date: 1949 Description: 96 pp. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, ads, etc. 11¼x8¼, original color pictorial saddle stitched magazine wrappers. Cover image features painting of Ben Hogan by Boris Chaliapin Ben Hogan Time Magazine cover issue, one month before his near fatal car accident. Only 11 months after the accident in which he fractured a collar bone, ankle, and pelvis, he returned to competitive golf. The sports section contains a 3½ page article (pp.52-54, & 56) about Ben Hogan's life, career to date, and his style of play. The article also explains his nickname "Little Ice Water," by the following: "He stands 5 ft. 8½ in. and weighs only 140 lbs., but he manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf...Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world." The lot also includes 1 issue of: The Golfer. Magazine. Vol. 2, No. 8. February 1951. Lot Amendments Condition: Wrapper edges worn, creasing at bottom corner, address label on front wrapper at bottom; very good. Item number: 245464
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