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Peter Dobereiner, in recounting Crosby's exploit, wrote: "Stepping onto that tee, with the ocean crashing against the rocks below and the sea lions honking derision, the golfer is a tumult of emotions. Fear, awe, admiration and indecision fight for supremacy...Nowhere is he offered the chance of a richer prize or a more enormous failure. It is quite possible to stand on that tee and hit ball after ball into the Pacific and many a man has done so. On the other hand, Bing Crosby can look back and reflect that his life has not been in vain, even...
...while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed his way to the top of a sprawling financial empire. He commanded ocean liners and airlines. He had married one of the most beautiful women in San Francisco, the daughter of one of the city's most wealthy and powerful men. If America had a special promise, he had taken...
...national assets. In his roisterous youth, Delaney was famed for pub crawls with Brendan Behan and for having been expelled from Dublin's National College of Art ("Inspiration didn't automatically come to me between 9 and 5"). Today in his Dublin studio and on his stony ocean-front farm in County Galway, Delaney fashions sculptures from scrap bronze that he has melted down. "In the long run," he says, "the public will benefit if the artist's output is greater." As a gesture of appreciation, he is teaching young Irish sculptors how to cast their work...
...interviewed the novelist; and Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins, who did what would be described in Le Carré's spy argot as the "burrowing"-the background research. Fischer talked with Cornwell for 16 hours, both in London and at the author's farmhouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Cornwell lived up to his reputation as a rugged interview only when he jauntily insisted that Fischer join him on a "forced march" of three miles over the cliffs near his home...
...feds now believe that organized drug wholesalers and international syndicates are operating in New England. In August a series of drug raids in Rhode Island uncovered a drug ring using 20 trucks, six airplanes and four ocean-going vessels...