Word: ailsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year the British decided to go after the Walker Cup in earnest. They scheduled the matches for Ailsa, a 7,025-yd. course at Turnberry, Scotland, whose massive bunkers and cement-hard greens were sure to give U.S. golfers fits. Then they picked a team of strong young amateurs who could match the long-hitting Americans drive for drive. And, finally, they prayed for rain...
...Avalon Foundation, founded in 1940 by Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon* and ex-wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's David K. E. Bruce, gave $500,000 to endow a new chair in the history of science at Yale. The Avalon Foundation has made grants totaling more than $25 million since its founding, including $2,500,000 to Manhattan's Lincoln Center and $1,100,000 to all 86 U.S. medical schools to supplement scholarship funds...