Word: parrishes
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...books, records, games, posters and T-shirts. A continuous film program featured classics from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to "Bambi Meets Godzilla." An art show gave amateur and not-so-amateur painters a chance to show their work--most of which looked like a combination of Maxfield Parrish, Peter Max, and Marvel comics...
Soon after that landmark encounter, Duncan Cryder, who had been a member of Vanderbilt's party, sounded out another Southampton resident named Samuel Parrish, who was then vacationing in Italy, about the possibility of introducing golf in Southampton. Parrish hurriedly arranged for Willie Dunn to get a passage on a steamship so he could come to Southampton and begin building a golf course at once...
...Parrish accompanied Dunn in surveying the land for the most suitable stretch on which to play golf. Parrish later recorded his adventures with Dunn, writing, "Dunn teed up a ball and handed me a driver. By some fortunate dispensation of Providence, I happened to make a drive--all too frequently failing since of repetition in my 32 years of golf--and the ball went sailing over the embankment of the railroad track...this then having been the first ball ever struck on the Shinnecock Hills. It is needless to recall here the experience of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands...
...past six months has begun offering an Art Card on which patrons can charge up to half the price of a painting or sculpture, and take as long as five years to pay (at 15% interest). One California civil servant used the card to buy a Maxfield Parrish original that cost $14,000-equal to his annual salary. At Emory University in Atlanta, students can use credit cards to enroll for any evening course-Spanish, fiction writing, belly dancing. Some churches in the same city let parishioners charge their annual pledges on credit cards...
While the propriety of using one's kith and kin in such a fashion can be debated (see TIME ESSAY), there is no doubt that the cheerfully assorted Carters and Fords have enlivened the 1976 race for the White House. "They provide a spark," says Chuck Parrish, Carter's coordinator in the swing state of Texas. "They bring the excitement of the national campaign down to the local level." Jack Ford, the President's 24-year-old son, might also be speaking for the Carter children when he says, "Since the character of the candidate...