Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Through his father, Victoria's uncle, the bookish and liberal-minded Duke of Sussex, who outraged King George III by marrying Lady Augusta Murray, a commoner. The old king declared the marriage void under the Royal Marriage Act. The son took one of his family's ancestral names, d'Este, and never tired of trying to win recognition from the British Court. He was fobbed off with a Hanoverian knighthood...
Cease-Fire. In Augusta, Me., the State of Maine hired a psychiatrist to find out why hunters shoot each other...
...description of Ithaca as the home of Odysseus has kept classical scholars puzzling for centuries to reconcile his landmarks with the topography of that small Ionian island. Berry Fleming's Fredericksville, Ga. scene of The Fortune Tellers presents no such problems of identification: the place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree) of their community...
Texas' Ben Hogan had won all but one of golf's top prizes in the most spectacular career since that of Bobby Jones. The one that eluded Ben nine times in the last 13 years is the Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga., founded by the old master, Bobby Jones himself. Last week little (133 Ibs.) Ben Hogan, almost ready to retire at 38, tried again...
...Augusta, Ga. this week, an invading army of engineers, builders and technicians jammed the city's hotels and spare rooms to the rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...