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Saddened but stubbornly loyal, 15,000 British golf fans turned out on the Lindrick course at Worksop, near Sheffield, last week to watch their Ryder Cup pros wind up what promised to be a Gallipoli of golf. After a devastating afternoon of Scotch Foursomes (in which partners alternate strokes on the same ball), Britain's best were behind 3 to 1. The visiting Americans were favored to breeze through all of the eight remaining singles matches...
...like Waterloo!" shouted a gleeful spectator when the good news, 7 to 4 for Britain, was posted on the Scoreboard. For golfers, it was at least that. It took Wellington only four days to beat Napoleon. It had taken Britain 24 years to whip the United States for the Ryder...
...earliest beginnings, with reproductions of 16th century prints done by post-Columbian explorers, to recent abstract paintings, and includes some of Gilbert Stuart's famed portraits of Washington, an engraving by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, works by Benjamin West, Washington Allston, Whistler, Sargent, Homer, Eakins and Ryder. What the exhibition plainly shows is that a new school of painting sprang up in the U.S.. one that at times echoes its European origins, but that has its own national imprint and its own peculiar genius...
Dick Wharton and A1 Bordon each finished third in their heats in the Jack Ryder 440, neither placed, as the winner, based on times, was Bill Merritt of Holy Cross, who broke the record held by former Crimson star Dave Alpers. Skerritt placed second for Yale...
...from little-known Willard L. Metcalf's moonlit May Night to John Hult-berg's Yellow Sky (TIME, May 2, 1955), and including Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Across the hall was a first-rate collection made up of nothing but onetime nonwinners: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley and John Marin. Said Corcoran Director Williams: "We know from the statistics of previous shows that only three or four of the exhibitors will be names to conjure with in the year 2007. Which ones are they...