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First concocted as a poem by Byron, Mazeppa's most famous adaptation for the stage described the life and hard times of the crown prince of Tartary. As a page boy in the castle of a Polish King, Mazeppa inspires a gaudy first-act curtain by shooting the fiance of the King's only daughter. Before the hoopla has subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their...
...tournament were: happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret (winner of half the tournaments on the winter circuit), up-&-coming little Ben Hogan (who finished in the money in 16 tournaments this year), long-swatting Sam Snead, a mechanically perfect golfer, and onetime Open Champions Ralph Guldahl (1937-38) and Byron Nelson (1939)-none of them over 29 years...
...English did not know what to do with the Prince, they knew still less what to do with the Princess, whose high spirits, admired by Lord Byron, became hoydenish and pathetic with middle age. Prinney tried and failed to trump up enough scandal about Caroline to get a divorce. Caroline sailed off to Italy and behaved outrageously but always just within the law. When Prinney became King in 1820 he had her name struck from the Prayer Book. She returned to London to fight...
...Philadelphia Francis E. Stanley Peggy Tumbull, Wellesley Samuel K. Stewart Nyllis Gardner, Endicott Junior College Galen L. Stone Nancy Vogel, Brookline William R. Taylor Ellen Sutherland, Connecticut Women's College Henry A. Tilghman Isabelle Foster, Milton Charles H. Tobias, Jr. Carol Flarsheim, Brookline Robert H. Troescher Doris Goerger, Lynbrook Byron E. Varn Rarette, Jr. Virginia Seay, Vassar John H. Vaughan Patricia Adams, Wellesley George Waissbord-Solovieff Marguerite Madden, Winsor Morton Waldstein Marie Core Duffy, Vassar Rufus F. Walker Susan Strong, Dover Willard M. Waterous Barbara Phair, Mount Holyoke College George F. Waters Ann Clarke, Beaver Country Day Frank J. Webster...
When play started, the Texans swept the field like a tornado. The first day, only four golfers broke 70. They were Jimmy Demaret, Byron Nelson and two other Texans, Oldtimer Harry Cooper and Newcomer Lloyd Mangrum, both of Dallas. The Augusta Masters has always produced at least one spectacular round. That day last week those Texans made all previous feats look humdrum. Playing with characteristic nonchalance, chatty Jimmy Demaret-in his first Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major...