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...event was a simple outing, superficially nothing more than a Sunday hike in the woods. But for Sierra Clubbers such outings have a deeper meaning. They fear that on some still far distant Sunday there may well be no woods left to hike in, and they return from each expedition more determined than ever to prevent that day from coming. "Is it a religion?" one Sierra Clubber was asked last week. "In a way," he answered, "it surely...
Even the smallest companies like to have at least one country-clubber on their staff. One small Boston advertising firm has a low-70s golfer whose only job is to play with prospective customers, softening them up for the eventual sales pitch from another member of the firm. Bigger corporations may have a dozen memberships to hand out ta their executives, chart their plan of attack as carefully as any sales campaign. They spread their men around in different clubs covering every customer market, make sure to put each man in the club where he can do the most good...
After admiring the garden, the President accepted a dozen long-stemmed roses for Mamie, which he turned over to a Secret Service man. When the man left to put the flowers in the car, an indignant garden clubber let out a yelp. "Where's he going with our flowers?" she demanded...
...orchids, tossed seven quarters in a series of wishing ponds, accepted a boutonniere. His progress was difficult, what with the enveloping reporters and photographers, officials and a fluttering brood of dowagers pleading that the flowers be spared. When a photographer slipped ankle-deep into a pond, a glaring garden clubber cried, "Shame...
...partner (along with Averell Harriman) in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., a director of the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Prudential Insurance Co., a fellow (along with Dean Acheson and Robert Taft) of the Yale Corporation. He is a crack golfer (shot a 66 last year), an enthusiastic glee clubber. He served as the party's finance chairman, 1947-50, and put on a razzle-dazzle show against razzle-dazzle Benton in the 1950 Senatorial campaign, which Bush lost by a narrow 1,102-vote margin...