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...story Cukor tells is that of Henry (Alec McGowen), a forty-year-old virgin, the most conventional sort of English bankclerk, and his 70-year-old Aunt Augusta (Maggie Smith), as promiscuous and eccentric as Henry is straightlaced. She sweeps him out of his dreary English garden away on a precarious flirtation with the underworld...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Travels With My Aunt | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

When Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: A Call for an Act of Creativity | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...area residents and visitors for practice rounds in the first part of the week and even more people to the tournament that began on Thursday. All the condition surrounding the tournament--the weather, the festive atmosphere and the people--seemed to indicate that the Masters is golf's and Augusta's celebration of the return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Tournament Golfers Perform In Augusta Version of Rites of Spring | 4/10/1973 | See Source »

Looking at the gallery in Augusta, one would not be struck by the number of middle-age or older people or with the gallery's supposed knowledge of the game (which led Robert Trye Jones, Jr., former president of the Augusta National Golf Club, to call the golfing patrons of Augusta, "the most knowledgeable and considerate in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Tournament Golfers Perform In Augusta Version of Rites of Spring | 4/10/1973 | See Source »

...close of the opening round, two teenagers leaving the Augusta National had this exchange. "Hey, remember that eagle Hiskey got on 15?" "No, but look at this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Tournament Golfers Perform In Augusta Version of Rites of Spring | 4/10/1973 | See Source »

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