Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week golf's bigwigs announced the establishment of a Hall of Fame. Patterned after baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., golf's shrine will stand on a hillock overlooking the Augusta National Golf course at Augusta, Ga. First foursome to be immortalized in bronze: Bobby Jones, Francis Ouimet (pronounced we met), Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen...
...Golfer Craig Wood, 39, perennial hard-luck guy of golf's big-money championships: the Augusta Masters tournament; defeating a field of 50 hand-picked "masters"; with a four-round score of 280 (66-71-71-72); at Bobby Jones's dream course at Augusta, Ga. Since 1933, Wood, dubbed America's No. 1 runner-up, had just missed winning the British Open, U.S. Open, National P.G.A. and the Masters...
...ended, but it's over. You never can tell what a redhead will do. But she's coming up here tomorrow. Or maybe we'll get together in a month. How do I know?" - Emerging from the gallery during practice for the Masters golf tournament at Augusta. Ga., fiery old Ty Cobb stepped to the tee, rifled a 250-yd. lefthander straight down the middle. Almost as pleased as if he had just stolen second, he then issued a challenge to Babe Ruth, who hits a long ball at golf, too: "I have been hankering to take...
Last week in a hotel at Augusta, Ga., the two top men in the U. S. cotton business spoke their thoughts on cotton's future. They were the tall, urbane Texan Will Clayton, whose Anderson, Clayton & Co. is the world's No. 1 cotton broker; and short, portly Oscar Johnston, No. 1 grower, whose plantation operations in Mississippi-50,000 acres worked by 3,000 farm hands-produce 16,000 bales of cotton a year. Will Clayton is a polished internationalist, a business diplomat who is now a Deputy Loan Administrator for Jesse Jones. Oscar Johnston is rooted...
...rundown, rural St. John's Church at West Point, Va., where in a year he paid off a heavy debt, boosted the communicant list from 13 to 100. In 24 months he had calls from 28 parishes, finally accepted a call from the Church of the Good Shepherd, Augusta, Ga. There he stayed just long enough to meet and marry Sarah Hardwick. (Said he on his 40th wedding anniversary: "I believe the Lord sent me there so I could find my wife.") Then he served successively at two wealthy, influential parishes: Grace Church, Chicago; St. Thomas', New York...