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...opening round on Los Angeles' Rancho course, Mike DiCesaro of Houston got mad after losing to Ted Grassi of Erie, Pa. He let out a squawk to the rules committee, got Grassi disqualified for using clubs with illegal face grooves. Next day, Grassi followed DiCesaro around, heckling him continually and calling attention to his clubs, finally got him disqualified for using equally illegally grooved clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anybody's Open | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...days, divots and fur flew the length & breadth of the 6,643-yd. Rancho course. The rules allow a player to assume a fair stance, but when Jack Gargan, a Hollywood bit-player, trampled a young sapling to get more elbow room for an approach shot on the 18th hole, his opponent asked for a ruling. Sputtered Gargan, when an official disqualified him: "I wouldn't call a thing like that on my grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anybody's Open | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...subtropical mountain rain forest, or "high jungle," of Venezuela, Beebe's zoologist-assistant Jocelyn Crane ran across a fantastic concrete hotel building that had been left to molder unfinished after the death, in 1935, of its builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande-nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime." With the consent of the Venezuelan government and the support of the New York Zoological Society and the Creole Petroleum Corp., the Beebe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...MANICOMO," i.e., bughouse. Some of the natives watched with great interest as Beebe experimented with such insects as the Hercules beetles, six inches long, which outweigh some of the smallest mammals and fight with their horns like embittered rhinoceroses. Though ocelots hunted by night in the rooms of the Rancho Grande, and army ants on the march once had to be diverted from the laboratory by 20 gallons of flaming gasoline, Beebe firmly maintains that the jungle was as safe as a church. During the three years, 1945, 1946 and 1948, he experienced nothing worse than a broken leg -from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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