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- I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to…
- So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the…
- I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater…
- When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies…
- Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the…
- Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from…
- Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their…
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