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Consider the following views of the sophomore center and varsity golfer: "I wasn't too pleased about being put on J.V. [basketball] this year after playing varsity last season, but I realize you have to prove yourself every year. I tried not to let it bother me--it's only one part of my life at Harvard...
...Wheeler, a brilliant surgical resident who stumbles prettily from creepy suspicion to grisly certainty. But no one in the hospital, including the kindly chief of staff (Richard Widmark), will take her seriously. Her lover, a crass young intern (Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some day, keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like...
...timelessness of the great golfer that lends the same so much of its mystique. Golfers such as Sarazen and Snead bridge the generations and put in perspective the achievements of past and present. It would indeed be a shame to lose the ageless pleasure of watching Sarazen amble along the fairways, wearing the plus-fours and argylls of a past epoch and grinning his Cheshire Cat grin...
...lawyer named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from department stores and discounters...
Spellacy's own career was blotched by petty corruption, his private life by weaknesses of the flesh. Still he remains cheerful, for like his brother the Rt. Rev. Desmond Spellacy, chancellor of the Los Angeles archdiocese and an outstanding golfer, Tommy knows that vice is far more interesting than virtue. For wickedness offers the double pleasure of sinning and confessing...