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MCDOUGAL FOUND HIS NEW FUNDING IN JANUARY 1982 by buying a controlling interest in the Woodruff County Savings & Loan Association in Augusta, Arkansas. Since new laws allowed S&Ls extraordinary latitude in making loans with their federally insured deposits, McDougal began buying more land and building developments. He also renamed the S&L, once again turning to a favorite President for inspiration: Woodruff became Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. He opened a flagship office in Little Rock and began seeing the Clintons socially again (Bill had won back the Governor's job in 1982). Thus McDougal happily agreed to hold...
DIED. BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN, 84, actress; of burns received while lighting a kerosene heater; in Augusta, Georgia. In 1937 the New York Times theater critic noticed "the extraordinary artistry of a high-stepping, little dusky creature who describes herself as Butterfly McQueen." Two years later, the world saw McQueen as Prissy, the comically incompetent slave in the film classic Gone With the Wind. Her panicked "Lawdy, Miz Scarlett. I don't know nothing about birthing babies!" became one of the most quoted lines in movie history--and in later years, a focus of criticism for fitting an "Uncle Thomasina" stereotype. Ironically...
...MASTER Ben Crenshaw hadn't won a major tournament since the '84 Masters, his putting stroke had left him, and he teed off at Augusta the day after bearing mentor Harvey Penick's casket. But with Penick as spiritual caddy, the reverential Crenshaw won golf's most revered tourney...
...outside world learned of the Hiroshima bomb--but not of its gruesome effects--from a terse White House announcement approved by President Truman, who was steaming home from Potsdam on the U.S.S. Augusta. The big news was saved for the beginning of the third paragraph: "It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its powers has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East." This was the first public announcement anywhere indicating that nuclear weapons even existed...
While the attention of the golf world was focused clearly on Augusta, Georgia and the Masters golf tournament, both the Harvard men's and women's golf teams were also in action late last week...