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...practically puny by American standards. But it is an un-American course. There are stone walls to play over, tiered greens the size of polo fields, and acre upon acre of prickly gorse, heather and sad. Nicknames are enough for the hazard: "The Twin Fangs of the Lady of Fife," "The Valley of Sin," "Hell Bunker." For a topper, there is the weather. The word "links," after all, originated in Scotland. It means "golf course by th sea," and in the case of St. Andrew; that means the North...
...Literary Exercises will follow elections of new undergraduate and honorary members. Led by the traditional fife and drum, the members will march from the elections in Harvard Hall to Sanders...
Myers' gift showed up somewhat late. As a youngster in Troy, Ohio, he preferred the fife to football. "My mother made my brother Mike a football outfit," he says. "She made me a band uniform." But Tommy turned out for football in the seventh grade, became a quarterback largely by the process of elimination: "I wasn't fast enough to be a halfback, and I wasn't big enough to be a lineman." At first, he threw his passes sidearm-which mattered little, because Troy High never passed anyway: the star of the team...
...today, Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration in Sanders Theater. The annual literary exercises, open to the public, will follow the election of new members and the march to the theatre, led by the traditional fife and drum. Playwright Lyon Phelps will give the Phi Beta Kappa poem...
...final days before the cease-fife, the French and Algerians were fighting an artillery and air battle along the Tunisian border. Probable reason: the F.L.N. wanted to show that it was fighting to the last...