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...finished product, which took four months to write, was then marketed according to library sources. When publishers listed in Literary Marketplace failed to respond, Mrs. Durham consulted a directory of agents and got results from New York's Ann Elmo (chosen because the author loves Augusta Evans' venerable tearjerker, St. Elmo). Now that heady success has crowned all these efforts, Mrs. Durham can be found in the periodical room studying her competition in Publishers Weekly and Variety...
...Jones once observed that nobody really wins a major golf tournament; someone always loses it. Indeed the salient feature of last week's British Open was not so much Lee Trevino's narrow victory, but Jack Nicklaus' slender loss. Nicklaus had already won the Masters at Augusta, Ga., and the U.S. Open and had set his sights on this tournament and the upcoming P.G.A. in a bid for an unprecedented grand slam of professional golf...
Married. Frank ("The Fordham Flash") Frisch, 74, Hall of Fame second baseman, player-manager for the St. Louis Cardinals of the '30s, and later broadcaster for the Boston Braves and New York Giants; and Schoolteacher Augusta Kass, 64; both for the second time; in Narragansett...
Playing amid cold, blustery breezes that shook the dogwood and azaleas, Nicklaus shot closing rounds of 73 and 74 over Augusta's long, hilly par-72 course. But he still managed to win by three strokes with a total score of 286. "Nobody made a run at me," said Nicklaus, seemingly disappointed...
Palmer came in at 300. So did Trevino, who was ending a two-year boycott of the Masters. Apart from Nicklaus' brazen attempts to reach the green in two on the 520-yd., water-guarded 15th hole, most of the excitement was in Augusta's parking lot, where Trevino used his red Dodge Charger as a locker room and interview post. Apparently miffed over the near eviction of his driver-valet for not wearing the proper badge during a practice round, Trevino gave the clubhouse wider berth than a curl-lipped bunker. Nicklaus, of course, could...