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Inventor of and apparently chief investor in this new industry is Garnet Carter, the mild, easygoing, drawling owner of Fairyland Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. About a year ago Mr. Carter did what many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his lawns. Finding guests used this more than they did his $340,000 regular course, he made improvements. Tunnels, bunkers, miniature traps were added. Then he invented a putting green made of cotton seed hulls, sure to wear long and well...
...finishing a poor third. W. C. Rowe '31, J. W. Fobes '32, David Cobb '31, and N. P. Hallowell '32 comprised the local contingent. The formidable Holy Cross threat was removed when Hegarty, Purple leadoff man, fell on the first turn. The last race, between Hallowell and Russell Chapman, Garnet anchor man, was nip-and-tuck all the way. In the last stretch Chapman, with his superior experience, forged ahead and won by four yards. The time was 8 minutes 2 4-5 seconds...
Other imperial gems went for as little as $290, paid for a garnet necklace with bracelets to match, on which bidding started at $25. Total sales reached $402,800. A single 48-carat oval diamond brought $57,000. The major "Crown Jewels" of the Tsars (TIME, Dec. 27) still remain, of course, in Russia, guarded day and night by soldiers in tight uniforms buttoning up the back and without cuffs or pockets...
...parquetry of a Manhattan ballroom, which had been chartered for the 21st Annual Automobile Salon, stood some 100 of the cars of the more expensive manufacturers equipped with various body-designs which will define the trend of the new year's elegance: Bodies that reproduced in lustre-lacquers the garnet, topaz, turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon...
Last week despatches called attention to one of the ramifications of Henry Ford's business not hitherto generally known. Mr. Ford owns one of the richest garnet mines in the world. It is located on the side of Bear Hill in Danbury...