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...Certain Conflict. Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, for 26 years Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, was not always so beloved among her subjects. For all that she had been born in England, a cousin of Queen Victoria and a great-granddaughter of George III, the shy, penniless German Princess who in 1893 married the future George V, then Duke of York, was not welcomed with open arms. British sentiment was affronted by the fact that she had previously been affianced to the Duke's elder brother, heir presumptive to Victoria's throne...
...responsibilities of office seem to rest pretty lightly on the General these days. We didn't raise a fuss when he started going off to Augusta every few days for a vacation on the golf course. Previous presidents, to be sure, have found that the job takes all day every day, but we weren't going to get upset about it. "Maybe the work load is a little easier at the beginning, before things really get rolling," we thought. "Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, isn't he appointing plenty of Harvard...
...more than two weeks Dwight Eisenhower kept a watchful eye on his appointment schedule, hoping for a chance to slip away to the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club for a long weekend of golf and semi-privacy. Last fortnight a balky schedule kept him at home. But on Thursday afternoon last week, leaving a clean desk behind, the President climbed aboard his plane, the Columbine, Georgia bound...
Quick Change. Soon after the takeoff, the President settled down with a Western novel. He was still reading it when the Columbine landed at Augusta 2 hours and 16 minutes later. Augusta had not had a full day of sunshine since Feb. 18, but as the Columbine squared away for her landing, the sun burst through the clouds. There were still puddles of water on the airport ramp and on the highway as the Eisenhower car sped out to the Golf Club, zipped up the magnolia-lined driveway and came to a stop in front of the little (two-bedroom...
...flew down to Augusta to play golf last weekend, son, and I failed to break 90. My days as a barber are limited...