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...streaking Chicago White Sox edged the Red Sox yesterday, 1-0. Chicago pitchers Eddie Fisher and Terry Forster combined for a three-hitter, with Marty Pattin taking the loss for the Bosox...
...businessmen-and they are much more likely to join in good times than bad. But though most service enterprises are now advancing strongly, the country-club business is still in something of a hole. A survey of 75 clubs by the Manhattan accounting firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster & Co. shows that membership, which had been on the rise for 17 straight years, went down about 1% in 1971. Faced with this slippage, some clubs have relaxed their restrictions and pushed aggressive membership drives. A few have even tossed in their name-embossed towels and closed...
Still, many other clubs are caught in a squeeze between soaring costs and the amount of dues that members are willing to pay. According to the Harris, Kerr, Forster study, the bill for maintaining a golf course last year jumped 9%, to $5,364 for each hole, and has nearly doubled in the past 15 years. Paradoxically, rising land values have brought disastrous increases in taxes on many clubs-particularly in states that levy especially large taxes on land that is not being put to the best use recommended in local zoning plans. Property taxes on the Purchase Country Club...
...Forster) is a $20-a-day Hollywood private eye who wears a vest, a trench coat and a Bogart mask of cynicism. "I hope you'll pardon the way I look. I just threw something on," a pretty suspect (Jessica Walter) tells him when he rings her doorbell. "You almost missed," retorts Banyon, in a line that dates from considerably earlier than...
...dialogue ("You don't want to start World War II, do you?") are supposed to provide period authenticity. Only '30s Star Joan Blondell really does, in a too-brief cameo as Banyon's matronly chum. But even here the show blows its own cover. Forster finds Blondell huddled over her wooden radio, tearfully listening to the abdication speech of Edward VIII. It is a neat trick. Edward abdicated a year before the series is supposed to take place...