Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous father, Pittsburgh Financier Andrew Mellon) a collector of taste and sensitivity. From 1907 until 1914, Paul Mellon spent almost every summer in Britain, still remembers "laughing ladies in white with gay parasols, men in impeccable white flannels and striped blazers, and always behind them, behind everything, the grass was green." He developed a taste for fox hunting, for racing and for thoroughbreds; when in 1936 he bought his first 18th century English painting, it was a picture of a stable lad and a horse named Pumpkin by the great George Stubbs. The work was an admirable choice...
...snaky. Winds rising to 45 m.p.h. raked the fairways, turned the greens hard and slick. At times, the gusts seemed to come from every direction, spattering sand in players' faces, carrying well-stroked shots into the rough. On the 14th fairway, Tony Lema tossed a handful of grass into the air, stared stupefied as the grass soared straight upward. Of 401 rounds played, only five were below par 71-incredible in this day of precision golf. There were so many climatic complaints that it was soon called "the Crybaby Open." "This persnickety blankety-blank course," muttered aging...
...Drum, Grass...
...making $500,000 a year, has two children, a philosophy ("God is my kids, my old lady,* green grass, trees, machines and animals"), a mountaintop Hollywood home, and business interests worth $300,000. In the language of producers, he is white-hot. He has just finished Love with the Proper Stranger with Natalie Wood, and he is making Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and The Traveling Lady with Lee Remick. "I got loot, a family, property, and I'm heading for the big apple," he says, stepping on the gas. "You know-the brass ring. Everything...
Pitcher Del Rossi also tripled, bringing in two runs in the second inning that proved to be more than enough insurance for the victory. His blast was quickly duplicated by Curly Combs, who so startled left-fielded Hugh Levick that he fell on the slippery outfield grass while chasing the ball...