The James Logan Courier

By Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune (MCT)


CHICAGO — Timing is everything, and when it comes to the mysterious quantum physics of comic timing, it's really everything.


No moviegoer on the planet plans on buying into "The Avengers" this weekend for a lesson in light-fingered comic delicacies. It's a machine, and in the 10-ton franchise genre, a pretty good one. Yet writer-director Joss Whedon's machine contains one particularly funny sight gag, a capper to one of its many climactic battle sequences within the extended climax.

From Wikipedia:
Elizabeth Earle "Betsy" Rawls (born May 4, 1928) is an American professional golfer.

Rawls was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. After attending the University of Texas, Rawls joined the LPGA Tour in its second season in 1951. She won 55 tournaments on the tour, including eight major championships. She topped the money list in 1959 and finished in the top ten nine times between its introduction in 1957 and 1970.

Following her retirement from tournament play, she became a tournament director for the LPGA Tour.

Learn more about Betsy Rawls at the World Golf Hall of Fame.