Word: pining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovers Leo and Gilda comfortably sinning in an attractive London flat. Both, however, pine for their absent crony Otto. Gilda, it appears, is not so happy as she might be with Leo's theatrical success. While he is away at a houseparty, up bobs Otto, fresh from a voyage on a tramp steamer. "The circle has turned," says he, "and it's my turn now." But next morning Gilda leaves notes for both her lovers, goes off to Manhattan to marry an art broker and find, she hopes, peace. When Leo and Otto meet and read their letters...
...Augusta National. The course-6,700 yd. from the back tees -was designed by Golf Architect Allister MacKenzie, with Jones's help. Intended to be the "ideal course" for both experts and dubs, it contained only 22 traps. Its appearance-rolling ground in a pleasant valley edged by pine trees-suggested that another Bobby Jones, Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones, had done the settings. Jones escorted foursomes of new members and celebrities invited for the opening over his course last week, scoring unobtrusive 69's while his friends hacked out what they could...
...sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers who pine for action had best look elsewhere. Nothing much happens in these stories; they are a mirror, not a silver-screen. Some of the reflections: A mountain boy, fired by his teacher with a vague desire for "learning," sets off across the hills to see the world...
...Union will be decorated with green sprays of pine and other shrubs. Dancing will be in the main lower common room, with refreshments served in the north wing. Sammy Liner's Metropolitan Orchestra will furnish music for the occasion...
...last week. "The organization was my own creation. . . ." It was the story of Long-Bell Lumber Co. that Chairman Robert Alexander Long, now 81 was telling. He was fighting a receivership long desired by certain bondholders (TIME, Feb. I). One day in 1918, faced with exhaustion of their southern pine reserves, Chairman Long had gathered his executives about him to ponder liquidation or continuance of the lumber business. Willingly risking his personal fortune, he joined in their vote to continue, promptly dispatched men into the Northwest to buy great tracts of Douglas fir. For the new venture they bought extensively...