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...improvement at the Western White House-a three-hole, nine-tee golf course built on 2½ acres of scrubland in 1969-was a no-strings-attached gift from a group of Orange County golfing businessmen. One of the organizers, Shopping Center Magnate Oscar W. (Dick) Richard of Newport Beach, Calif., calls the group "76 of the nicest guys in America doing something wonderful for a great President." After a tour of the course, which is generally barred to commoners, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos reported...
Members contribute $250 annually for upkeep, including a full-time ground keeper. "We are down to 40 members," laments Executive Committee Member John Cucci, a wealthy Newport Beach real estate investor. "All of this Watergate stuff has made some people nervous, I guess." Adds Richard: "It's just a shame that such an open, innocent gift as we made should be held in any sort of suspicion. After all, we are all relatively honest businessmen...
...least-used links in the country. Its guest book records only 330 visitors-among them David and Julie Eisenhower. Course Designer Gene Stoddard laments that nowadays only three or four members play on it each month. Explains one member: "It's a 45-minute drive from Newport Beach -and in that time you can play six holes on the local course...
...King. Things've come full cycle for the King of the Blues. He was a highlight of Newport-New England, finally reaping the musical benefits of his gradual rise to fame: he had a band that fit his talents. Which is nothing against the old Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals, because in the old days (like at the Regal), they just cooked. It's just that now B B has a band that's not only good, but it's big five horns, and piano augmenting the standard rhythm section with a rhythm guitarist as icing. Upshot? I've never...
...Newport Beach, Calif...