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...iron shot onto the fringe of the 18th green, he putted to within 18 in. of the cup and holed out a birdie four to win with four consecutive sub-par rounds: 69, 70, 69 and 70. In the short span of one month, Lee Buck Trevino?Mexican-American, grade-school dropout, ex-Marine sergeant and all-round hustler?had become the first golfer in history to win the British, Canadian and U.S. Opens in the same year. "Now," he cried, "maybe they'll consider me a good international player...
...star, unquestionably, was Ustinov. Without his insightful improvisation and mannered performance, the program would have been as forced as some of the old You Are There sagas or as deadly as a grade-school audio-visual lesson. Ustinov may do an encore when the series deals with King George III. But the next confrontation, tentatively scheduled for September, will feature either Firebrand Samuel Adams or "Washingham" himself. CBS hopes to land Richard Burton to play Adams, George C. Scott as Washington. Sevareid will do the interrogating again, though under the FCC "Fairness Doctrine" the British Empire might properly demand that...
...these sculptures, murals, playgrounds and unclassifiable opuses aren't meant for millionaires' collections or 9-5, open-late-on-Tuesdays museums-they will enliven streets and public places. And perhaps because anyone from grade-school children to established artists could submit a project, designs run a never-stuffy gamut from the mischievous to the elegant...
...Grade-School Teacher...
Bender was born in Goshen, Indiana, of Mennonite parents. After working as a grade-school teacher and as a railroad worker, he attended Goshen College until a religious controversy closed it. Bender transferred to Harvard in 1925, graduated in 1927, and received...