Word: golfes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior captain Alex Vik will be returning from playing the European amateur circuit after posting a second-place finish in the Norwegian Amateur Championship. After playing in three successive NCAA Championships and winning the Ivy League golf crown as a freshman and sophomore, Vik is gunning for All-American honors this time around...
Sophomore George Arnold also appears to have firmed up his game over the summer having recently teamed with his father, past president of the Massachusetts Golf Association, to win the father and son tournament at the Winchester Country Club...
...reasons the tourney has been such a good drawing card in past years is the preeminence of the Yale Golf Course, which was laid out by Charles Blair MacDonald, the autocrat of American golf when the game was just gaining hold in this country...
...highlights of the tournament will be the duel between Vik and Yale's Peter Tervainen, the two kingpins of Ivy League golf. When the two squared off in the Ivy League Championship last year, Tervainen edged out Vik by a single stroke to fend off the Crimson captain's bid for a third straight Ivy golf title...
...vice president remembers attending an affiliates' meeting in Hawaii with Silverman. While everyone else was playing golf or tennis, Silverman was found under a blanket on the beach, his eyes transfixed by a small, battery-powered TV. Once, in a state of great excitement, he called CBS Executive Perry Lafferty into his office to watch a scene in a soap opera. "It was a routine hospital bed scene, with the man standing beside the bed of the woman he loves," remembers Lafferty. "But I looked over at Freddie, and tears were rolling down his cheeks...