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...Armour's fond hope, he says, that Ike will ask him in for an hour or so of coaching some day. Armour's promise: to take five strokes off Ike's score...
...with his hearty bullying ("Either this is my house or it's not"). For Mr. Nicholas had very strict notions about family conduct, though they did not keep him from dashing off on an occasional weekend with a woman known as "Pussy." As for his wife, "he was fond of her in the way that he might have been fond of something inanimate, like a useful...
...Louisville Orchestra is fond of new music, has commissioned and performed 24 new works in five years. Last week it prepared for the biggest commissioning program in U.S. musical history: an additional 46 new compositions a year for four years. After performance by the symphony, the scores will be recorded (by Columbia) for subscription sale and distribution to broadcasters. The Rockefeller Foundation has agreed to put up the money ($400,000). Louisville's first big job will be to look over the musical scene, set the most gifted composers to work...
...Strange? Of course it was strange, and so was he, but fascinating. The critics don't like him because he is too far ahead of them. He is too genius, and besides, they don't understand him. I was quite fond of him. Was he taken with me? I suppose so. Once he bit me during a performance...
...that he should learn that there were more serious things in life than toys." At the age of five, when he developed such "sinful propensities" as a love of lollipops, his rector uncle was called in to flog his bare bottom with a riding crop. Because he became understandably fond of a pet cat, it was taken from him and hanged...