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...strides, wearing golf shirt and cardigan, wildly checked pink and green slacks and white lounging loafers. Forget the puffy, propped-up television image. On the eve of his 80th birthday, Hope looks fabulous. The hair that on his specials can appear fake is a rusty auburn on top and full and white on the sides. "It's thinning," says Hope, smoothing it back, "but it's all mine. I got a hair guy who tints it a bit for television. Otherwise the lights shine right through it. This fellow has a way of pushing it forward to give...
...jokes in four minutes has slowed, the style endures. Hope is still the All-American wisecracker. His only living peer among comedians, George Burns, 87, found himself a new guise: the worldly-wise old geezer. Hope does not change: he leads with his chin and the little golf swing he taught Johnny Carson and lives off his one-liners...
...round of golf with Film Producer Bob Bremson breaks up the afternoon. Bremson, although an old friend, is deferential to Hope, and the comedian warms to the attention. For on the course the visitor is reminded that this is Hope's game; all other players, ex-Presidents and Las Vegas headliners included, are simply along for the ride. Although he now shoots in the high 80s, Hope still has the picture-book swing he had when he was a four-handicap player. "You know what I'd really like to do this year?" he says, for a brief...
...WOMEN'S GOLF...
...Mart today dots 15 states, chiefly in the South and Midwest. Yet the stores try to tailor themselves to individual communities. Golf slacks may move well in one store, Wrangler jeans in another. By contrast, the 2,117 stores in the K mart chain, Wal-Mart's principal rival, mostly offer identical merchandise...