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...Gentlemen. Deepdale's President M. Borland Doyle, a Manhattan advertising executive, who even in his best days never shot better than 94, began to wonder about such uncommonly fine scores handed in by such high-handicap players. He checked the entry list and discovered that Winner Vitali belonged to no recognized club where his handicap could be checked. He tried to hold up payment of the winners' prize money, but was overruled by his tournament committee. No golfing gentlemen, they argued,t would participate in a fraud...
...second owner of the Bishop's Palace was no more palatable to the Cambridge citizenry than the first. John Borland, a shady Tory merchant, was finally kicked out of town in 1775. General Israel Putnam and the Rebel Army then took over the mansion as their headquarters, and the Apthorp house remained a military establishment during the Revolution...
Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were missing the boat," he says. "The visual image was here to stay...
...Great Hurry." At six, left at home in Hyde Park, young Franklin laboriously wrote: "I am in a great hurry. I found two birds nests. I took one egg." At seven: "I went to the Borland's I won one game by 2 she the other by 3. Send Papa 100 kisses and Aunt Laura and Uncle Frank both 75." At nine, on a trip to Bad Nauheim, Germany, in a round, bold hand he wrote to his cousins: "I go to the public school with a lot of little mickies and we have German reading, German dictation...
...John N. Borland...