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...most colorful champions golf has produced. "The only time I stop yakking," he says, "is when Im asleep. I even had to quit smoking on the golf course because I nearly choked to death while I was talking." After he won last week's Open at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., with a 275 that tied Jack Nicklaus' record, somebody asked Trevino what he planned to do with his $30,000 winner's check. "Buy the Alamo," he said, "and give it back to Mexico...
...OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Highlights of the first two rounds from Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, N.Y. Live coverage of the last six holes of the third round tomorrow, 4-5:30 p.m. Final round Sunday...
...Spencer Churchill had one of the most difficult roles in history. Born in 1911 in the year his father, Winston Churchill, became First Lord of the Admiralty, Randolph keenly felt the overpowering effects of his father's greatness. "When you are living under the shadow of a great oak tree," he once reflected, "the small sapling does not perhaps receive enough sunshine." Last week, at 57 still in the shadow, Randolph Churchill died...
...shadow and sun, by elm or oak, A gentler-seeming kind of folk, More leisurely, as if their ways, Inherited from better days, Knew mildness and the atmosphere Held in suspension, even here, A sense of ceremonial, Of courtesy, of ritual, As if even here, unconsciously, We moved in grave amenity, Or dwelt in grace, as if the air Bespoke us laudable and fair...
...call by name, the get Of Fair Play from Mahubah; and Regret, Noor, Sergeant Byrne, Ponder, and Petrotude, Miss Merriment, My Lovely, Singing Wood (Bay colt, by Royal Minstrel out of Glade), Cochise, Count Fleet, King Saxon, Cavalcade, Three fillies, Sorrow and Song and Rust-remember?-And Scarlet Oak, Right Royal, and Red Ember, Nashua, Swaps, and Sting, and Twenty Grand, Wise Counsellor, Whirlaway, and Yellow Hand, Yurup, another gray one, Native Dancer-Where are the ones with breeding...