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...City follows Computer Salesman Bob Carson's readjustment after an appendectomy: he was "trying to take again into himself the miracle of the world, programming himself." The aged farmer of William F. Van Wert's poetic Putting & Gardening discovers peace without change. On a Florida golf course his son observes him "on hands and knees, lovingly replacing my divot on . . . the only garden that is left for him." Like most of the ten women writers represented, Leigh Buchanan Bienen examines the everyday. Middle-class marriage is the subject, and only her narrator is exotic in My Life...
...consecutive weeks, major sports events an ocean and a world apart stepped ("one leg at a time," as the sportswriters say) into trouser controversies. Early last week, during the final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Oakmont, Pa., Forrest Fezler ducked into a portable comfort station after finishing the 17th hole and emerged to play the last hole historically (also horrendously) in shorts. Last week at Wimbledon, England, where tennis shorts have been customary since 1946, Trey Waltke competed in long white Bill Tilden-like flannels, complete with an old school tie for a sash, until Ivan Lendl...
...different stirrings caused by these incidents were intriguing. Fezler's fellow golfers, presuming that he was merely tweaking the dandruffy officials of golf, were actually surprised to learn that Fezler, in fact, had an endorsement contract with a company that makes shorts. On the other hand, or leg, everyone in tennis, the players, the tournament directors, the promoters, the agents, the sponsors, the groupies, the drug dealers and the reporters, were flabbergasted to find out that Waltke did not have a clothing contract, that he had done it just for fun. Hardly anyone could recall the last time...
...Dear Bill" series soon after Mrs. Thatcher took office in 1979. The feature proved so popular that two years ago it was adapted into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis? The letters have also served to make the real-life Denis, 68, a semiretired businessman who does indeed play golf, a sympathetic figure in his difficult role as Britain's first First Gentleman...
Does he discuss politics with the boss? "Yes," says she. "We talk about political problems and my problems, just as we talked about his when he was running his family business." He is reputed to be a skillful host at No. 10, and usually manages to get in a golf game twice a week (his handicap: 21). The twins, now 29, lead busy, independent lives. Carol got her law degree, then took up journalism and broadcasting...