Word: club
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Augusta, Ga. by chartered airplane last week flew a ten-man delegation from the Republican National Committee for a conclave about as suspenseful as an American League pennant race. At the Augusta National Golf Club the travelers were welcomed by a tanning and smiling Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, sat down for lunch with the President in the whitebrick, four-pillared Mamie's Cabin near Augusta's tenth fairway. Over lunch the group got down to business. Connecticut's Meade Alcorn was retiring as national chairman (TIME, April 13), Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton...
...ships' gangways and airplane ramps (Nassau is a 55-minute flight from Miami) to lose themselves in the Bahamas' magical blend of suntan, goombay music, Beefeater Gin (at $2 a bottle), crazy straw hats and Sweet Richard's single-entendre ditties at the Cat and Fiddle Club. Commerce, which flourished briefly in the blockade-running days of the Civil War and the rum-running days of Prohibition, is again running wild. And, in a respectable way, the pirates are back...
...foreign companies. Clint Murchison Jr. soaks up the sun on a private island hideaway at Spanish Cay (rhymes with fee). Standard Oil Heiress Marion Carstairs and her half brother Francis Francis bought adjoining Whale Cay and Bird Cay. Longtime Alcoa Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis built expensive Rock Sound Club, a public hotel, on Eleuthera. While he was at it, Davis put up the truly private Cotton Bay Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert Trent Jones-designed $600,000 golf course, and bought 25,000 acres of pink-beached paradise. Last week...
After splitting two games on a Bermuda trip this spring, New York blanked the Montreal Barbaraians 6 to 0, and then crushed Wesleyan, 24 to 0. Crimson Club present Bill Morse feels that "besides Princeton and Dartmouth, New York will be our strongest opponent...
...defending champion Elis" opening their Eastern Intercollegiate League season by blanking Army, 9 to 0. Well, last May 14, coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity defeated Yale, 6 to 3, to win the Eastern League title and will open their defense of that crown against the same Army club on the Soldiers Field courts at 2 p.m. today...