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...eight, Darwin muttered to his father, who was playing in a sedate foursome, "let us beat those beasts." He remained a partisan zealot the rest of his life. In 1929 the British ladies champion Joyce Wethered was five down in a match to her American counterpart, Glenna Collet. Before she sunk a putt that proved the turning point in the contest and enabled her to go on to victory, Miss Wethered noticed Darwin in the gallery and recalls that "his face wore an expression that was a mixture of fury and dejection." Darwin took no solace in the notion that...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Grand Writer a', Nane Better | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Glenna Brink Modesto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 6, 1975 | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...Chicago Sun-Times' wandering Newshen Glenna Syse spent 39 minutes with Author James Thurber, left with the conviction that he is "the funniest man alive." In an epigrammatic mood, Thurber ranged free and easy over-by count-39 subjects. Glenna's sampling included a Thurberism on age: "I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year, I'd only be 48.* That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1960 | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...after her 54th birthday, Glenna Collett Vare, six times women's amateur golf champion, played a 36-hole match with Rhode Island Champion Joan Bobel, 19, won two-and-one, and took back the state title she last held 36 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...down one on the 18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother to take the title since Glenna Collett Vare took it 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steaks & Stymies | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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