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...Hale Irwin neglected to break par 70 on any of the four days, but his seven-over-par score won the tournament by two shots. This year, when agronomists left the course relatively alone, Irwin led with three sub-par rounds before collapsing spectacularly under the combined weight of Winged Foot's patient vengeance and a second straight day of Zoeller's rollicking gallery. These days a golfer unafraid to smile is likely to be followed anywhere. Before the playoff, Zoeller said, "I kept hearing people say, 'Don't let the money out of the country...
Late one night in 1978, a few minutes after two Massachusetts policemen stopped and then waved on a drunken driver, he smashed into a car, killing 20-month-old Misty Jane Irwin and her young father; the drunk died too. Civil justice in the case was meted out last year, when a jury ordered the town of Ware (pop. 8,953) to pay Widow Debbie Irwin, now 25, $873,697 for the negligence of its policemen...
...Irwin, now an official of the central Massachusetts chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, was back in court last week for the first time since the judgment, in sad and unlikely circumstances. Ware police say that she was driving erratically. When they pulled her over outside the Cue and Cushion-the last bar her family's killer patronized-she refused to take a Breathalyzer test. Says Officer Richard Primavera: "She swayed, she stumbled, her speech was slurred, and there was an odor of alcohol...
...Irwin says she was sober. According to her lawyer, Alan Goodman, she declined the test for fear the police would falsify the results: many Ware residents resent Irwin's financial windfall at the taxpayer's expense. The arrest, he suggests, "appears to be more than coincidental." But Police Chief Stanley Mettig is unbudging. Declares he: "The bottom line is she was caught red-handed...
...DIED. Irwin Shaw, 71, popular, prolific American writer whose lean, straightforward prose style and masterly sense of storytelling won wide audiences for such novels as The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), but who will be remembered critically for his short stories of the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Davos, Switzerland. Born in Brooklyn, Shaw first won acclaim for his antiwar play Bury the Dead in 1936. He attracted a wide following with his short stories in The New Yorker, particularly his exquisite evocation of a young man's obsession, The Girls...