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2 KAUA‘I MIDWEEK SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
A Life-saving ‘Strangulation’
To change one’s life, start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
TNo exceptions.— William James
here was a time powers. However, his quitting when nearly every- coincided with a slump in his one smoked, houses golfing fortunes. People said he
with his spiked shoe.
“When are you going to
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were full of ashtrays and we couldn’t putt any more.
quit that stupid, filthy habit?” he barked.
gave cigarette lighters for Christmas. Then in 1963, the Surgeon General’s report told us what we already se- cretly knew: smoking kills. A number of famous people quit smoking publicly, among them, the great golfer Arnold Palmer, then at the peak of his
The following year, 1964, I was covering the Masters golf tournament for the Associated Press. On a Tuesday morning, I approached Arnold, notebook and ballpoint pen in hand, and a cigarette dangling from my mouth. He instantly snatched the cigarette and stamped on it
“Arnold,” I replied evenly, “I’d like to quit smoking, but I think it helps me write.”
ly threw it into the trash can. Almost immediately, a nicotine fit kicked in. It took an inordi- nate amount of time to write all the stories I had to finish that day. Still, I have not smoked since. At 95 years old, I think I can say that Arnold Palmer’s “strangulation” gave me breath for a long life.
After sports reporting for the Associated Press, Jim Becker covered wars in Korea, Viet- nam and the Middle East; was a columnist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; and worked with television networks, including NBC, in Europe.
Chasing The Light is pro- duced by Lynne Johnson and Robin Stephens Rohr.
“Nonsense!” he snapped.
I went on (less evenly), “Well, look at you, Arnold, you quit smoking, and you can’t putt!”
This was an incorrect ap- proach. He lunged for my col- lar and snarled, “What do you mean, I can’t putt? I am going to win this tournament. And if I do, are you going to quit smoking?”
with Jim Becker
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Yes,” I gasped in a half-stran- gulated voice. He loosened his grip, and we shook hands; we had a deal.
When Palmer sank his win- ning putt on the 18th green the following Sunday, I pulled out my pack of cigarettes, looked at it for a moment, then fierce-
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