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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...
...people presented to the President a nine-room apartment on the castle's top floor. Visiting the place in 1951, Mamie Eisenhower had said: "It's like a fairy tale-the kind we read about in Grimm's story book." Now, greeted by the Marquess of Ailsa and the Earl of Weymss and March, the President rolled into Culzean to rest up. "No one." said one of the Scotsmen in polite warning, "will bother him or fuss...
Bruce's first marriage (one daughter) to Andrew MelIon's daughter, Ailsa, ended in divorce in 1945. His present wife, the former Evangeline Bell, 35, is one of the most successful diplomatic hostesses in Europe. They have three children...
...other members: his sister Mrs. Alan Scaife; cousin Paul and Paul's sister, Mrs. Ailsa Bruce; and their elderly cousin, William Larimer Mellon...