Dave Anderson '47 Remember Arnold Palmer

Dave Anderson '47, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times sportswriter, remembered the legendary golfer Arnold Palmer in a September 26 article. Palmer died on September 25 at the age of 87.

"It was more than his scoring and shotmaking that captivated the sports world. It was how he played," Anderson recalled of Palmer, who became one of the world's most famous athletes. "He did not so much navigate a course as attack it. If his swing was not classic, it was ferocious: He seemed to throw all 185 pounds of his muscular 5-foot-10 body at the ball. If he did not win, he at least lost with flair.

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