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Nicklaus's stunning two-iron was certainly no flash-in-the-pan as Jack began grooving his swing when he turned ten under the tutelage of Jack Grout, the well-known professional then at the Scioto Country Club in Ohio. Grout in turn had been an assistant to Henry Picard, who is regarded as the finest striker of a two-iron who ever lived. The newspapers loved to refer to Picard as "the chocolate soldier" because he was the pro at the Hershey, Pennsylvania golf club...
...Visiting Committee of the Music Department is chaired by a member of the Board of Overseers, Gardner Cowles '25. Members include Leonard Bernstein '39; Alan Jay Lerner '40; Mrs. Henry Saltonstall; John W. Green '28, a Hollywood song-writer; and Donald J. Grout '35, author of a Music 1 textbook...
...haberdashery, and by giving lessons-mostly to amateurs, but often to the big-name stars of the tournament circuit. Arnold Palmer still takes lessons from his dad, a teaching pro at Pennsylvania's Latrobe Country Club, and Jack Nicklaus polishes his game under the watchful eye of Jack Grout at Miami Beach's La Gorce Country Club.* "If you wanted to learn how to play the violin, you wouldn't go to Jascha Heifetz," explains Sobel. "You'd go to a violin teacher. The same thing holds true for golf...
...Cadillac convertible.' He hit his ball 25 or 30 yds. past mine, and I never outdrove him again." (Jack never forgot the promise, settled for a Mercury convertible when he graduated from high school.) About that same time, Jack caught the eye of Jack Grout, then a pro at Columbus' Scioto Country Club. Recalls Grout: "I smoked a good one off the tee at No. 16, over the hill in the fairway. I hit onto the green with a 7-iron. Just after I started walking toward the green, a ball came whizzing by me. I looked around...
Immediately after becoming conductor emeritus, he began, with Donald Grout, now a professor at Cornell University, to assemble a general course in in music history which since has become the most popular music course at Harvard. Its enrollment averages almost 400 students each year...