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...never paid for golf instruction in my life. . . . My best score? Well, I fancy that was the 76 I made at Belmont Manor, Bermuda, when I was 82. Came home in 36, if my memory serves. I used to shoot my age frequently in those days...
...Shots besieged Fort Worth, they found its Colonial Club as tough a layout as they had ever seen. A par 70 course, its narrow fairways are bordered by groves of pecan trees, swamps, ravines and the chocolate-colored Trinity River that meanders stray-catlike over the course. Its tough Bermuda grass was an annoying novelty to many. And two days of rain had brought out chiggers-the pesky little red bugs that burrow into human flesh and start an itch worse than a mosquito bite...
Word reached the U.S. last week that the British, conscious of Freetown's new strategic importance, were taking steps to strngthen it. The 22,424-ton Monarch of Bermuda, late of the pleasure trade deposited "between 3,000 and 5,000 troops" there, adding to the port's reputed garrison of 30,000. Freetown would never become a Singapore, but it was repidly becoming Africa's Hong Kong-a base dedicated to defensive harassment and delay...
Zoologist-Writer William Beebe (Jungle Peace), sailing for Bermuda, where defense activities were making a mess of his marine laboratory, spoke hopefully of starting another laboratory. Possible site: near the peaceful jungle of Brazil...
Safeish in the Western Hemisphere on lumama's Independence day, dandified, puff-eyed Carol wirelessed back to son King Mihal I in Rumania "thoughts and love," assured the press later in his $100-a-day Bermuda hotel suite: "I am very glad to be on this side of the Atlantic; that I can tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white...