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While golf's high society was hob-nobbing on Magnolia Lane at the Augusta National this weekend, the Harvard golf team was taking a soggy stroll on the Yale golf course in the Big Three Match with Princeton and Yale...
...Orleans, the ageless dowager, hosted 770 conventions, 535,000 delegates, $139 million. Attractions: 20,000 hotel rooms, 330,000 sq. ft. exhibition space; superb cuisine, Ol' Man River, night life, Superdome, magnolia charm...
WHEN CIGAR-CHOMPING Mississippi Sen. James Eastland finally announced last spring--with considerable hemming and hawing--that he would not seek reelection, he let loose a fierce pack of political hounds from all over the Magnolia State. Soon after Eastland said he would vacate his long-held seat, about a dozen state politicos started to cash in on old political debts and plan their bids for the most prestigious political post in Mississippi. Mississippians, meanwhile, braced themselves for more of the same cliches and hackneyed phrases that echoed in past campaigns...
...mourning dove has set up housekeeping in Jackie Kennedy's garden and another that has nested under Andrew Jackson's magnolia. The mockingbirds are getting into the concord grapes, which are just turning juicy in the arbor. There are in fact about 16 kinds of permanent bird residents on the White House's 18 acres-catbird, house finch, downy woodpecker, fish crow, rock dove, gold finch. And another 38 kinds drop by for visits. A couple of Mallard scooted in to see the South Fountain. Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees...
...Styrofoam swans, in full ostrich-feather plumage, floated serenely in the swimming pool, flanked by bouquets of roses and magnolia blossoms, at Billy Carter's place north of Plains. To the strains of the wedding march, Billy and his daughter Jana strode over a bridge built across the pool for the occasion. The bride wore white. Billy outdid the swans in his ruffled shirt and his pale, cream-colored tuxedo with brown piping and a broad brown stripe down each trouser leg. His hair is rapidly turning gray now, and he wept a little as he gave...