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...dubbed, learned to play in a cow pasture using sticks as clubs. He won a record 81 PGA Tour events (17 of them after he had turned 40), including three PGA championships, three Masters and a British Open. "Watching Sam Snead practice hitting golf balls," said fellow pro John Schlee, "is like watching a fish practice swimming...
Died. George Schlee, 63, husband of Dress Designer Valentina, better known as Greta Garbo's companion for the past 15 years, who managed a very European ménage à trois, smoothly explaining to his wife, "I love her, but she will never want to get married, and anyway you and I have so much in common"; of a heart attack; in the suite that he and Garbo were sharing at Paris' Hotel Crillon...
...child's sense of giving a party, a fairyland belief in celebrities." One fairyland fable who slips frequently in and out of the house on East 62nd Street is Greta Garbo, the "G.G." to whom John Gunther dedicated Inside Russia Today, along with "G. and V." (Socialite George Schlee and his wife, onetime Fashion Designer Valentina, who introduced Garbo to the Gunthers...
...designer of the mass-producing Seventh Avenue factories, was going in for padding and long skirts. Seventh Avenue's Harriet Harra went even further with a "wraparound" cocktail suit which would have made an Egyptian mummy feel at home. But Russian-born, beautiful Valentina (Mme. George Schlee) was almost as conservative as Sophie. Her hems were down slightly and her décolletage was down a lot. Said Valentina: "The bozoom ees half-exposed, jost enoff to cover the-you know." Many a small-fry designer was trying so desperately to get everything Parisian into one dress that some...
While a new transatlantic flyer flashed across the sky last week (see above) oldtime transatlantic flyers made less conspicuous news: Brock & Schlee- In Detroit friends of round-faced William S. Brock and lean Edward Frederick Schlee took steps to restore for exhibition the monoplane Pride of Detroit in which the team flew from Detroit to Tokyo exactly five years ago. Purpose: to raise funds for Pilot Brock who lies ill of cancer in Chicago. Pilot Schlee revealed that he had paid $2.700 for the "public banquet" tendered himself and Brock upon their return from Tokyo. Post & Gatty. At the White...