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...fauna." The idea came to Kerkdijk during a trip to Africa, where he was struck by the abundance of giant herbivores, even in areas where people were living. "It just bothered me that we don't have that in Europe anymore," he says. His group has already introduced English Exmoor ponies - the closest living representatives of the wild horses painted alongside aurochs on cave walls - to the Netherlands' nature reserves. "You could also talk about recreating the giant deer," Kerkdijk says. "But there, we don't have a modern animal to work from." (See the top 10 animal stories...
Club fees have jumped as well -- although nowhere near the staggering levels paid in golf-crazy Japan (the most expensive: $2.5 million for the Koganei Country Club near Tokyo). In Highland Park, Ill., for example, initiation fees at the Exmoor Country Club have risen from $8,000 to $25,000 in the past five years. Memberships at some private clubs in the Los Angeles area cost more than $50,000, and $2,500 annually thereafter. But so far, golf aficionados are willing to pay those prices. Fore...
...last four years, most of the prizes for women's golf in the U. S. have been going to four young women of whom three--Virginia Van Wie, Helen Hicks and Maureen Orcutt-were in the field for last week's national championship at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Ill. The fourth-Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare I-was more interested in her new baby than in golf. But there was someone to take her place: angular Enid Wilson, a tall, plain, extraordinarily placid English girl who has won her own national championship regularly for the last three...
Ralph Austin Bard, partner in Bard & Co., President of C. I. C., was a three-letter man (Baseball, Basketball, Football) at Princeton (class of 1906). His club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive...
...Egan '05 is western champion. This summer he was runner-up in the open tournaments held at the Onwentsia Golf Club, Lake Forest, III., and at the Exmoor Century Club, Chicago. He played No. 3 on the University team last year...