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Prototype of the co-ops is the Mill Reef Club on isolated Antigua in the Leeward Islands. Opened in 1948 by U.S. Millionaire Robertson Ward, the club sprawls over 1.300 landscaped acres, has twelve sandy beaches, an 18-hole golf course. Membership (now closed) is rigidly screened to guarantee that openings do not go to just any old millionaire. Sixty-six members (among them: Francis du Pont) own winter homes on club property. With annual expenditures of $500,000. the club is impoverished Antigua's biggest single source of income...
...finals of the state championships, and headed an Indiana All-Star team that trounced the Kentucky All-Stars, 101-64. Indiana coaches and sportswriters voted him "Mr. Basketball," touted him as the brightest college prospect to come out of the Hoosier State since the great Oscar ("Big O") Robertson (TIME cover, Feb. 17). Deluged with scholarship offers, Bonham packed off to home-state Purdue. He stayed just three days ("I decided that four years is a long time to be unhappy"), went home to reconsider other offers. Bonham's final choice: the University of Cincinnati-the school that Oscar...
...obviously untrained, but to Manhattan Collector Louis Caldor, who spotted them and bought them for an average of $4 each, they had a kind of magic. Who had painted them? An old lady of 78, Caldor was told, who lived down on Cambridge Road. She was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, and from that moment until she slipped quietly into death last week at the age of 101, Grandma Moses was almost the most famous painter...
Died. Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, 101, famed U.S. primitive painter; of what her doctor described as "just wearing out"; in Hoosick Falls...
...albums for Folkways: "Border Ballads"--songs of the Scottish wars; "Bothy Ballads of Scotland"--a collection of songs found in bothies, which are the lodging-houses of ploughmen on great estates; and (this time on Tradition) "Classic Scots Ballads"--a collection of just that. Another Scottish folksinger is Jeannie Robertson, who is what they call "an auld dear," and who is billed as "The Greatest Scottish Folksinger" on a Prestige International recording. The accent makes the recording listenable--I know of no better way to polish up one's glottal stops...