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...vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat grin, and "the Haig" with his oriental eyelids and brilliantined hair bestriding the fairways of Muirfield. For as the Scotch have been wont to say since those colorful days of James II: they were all "grand gowfers a', nane better...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Grand Writer a', Nane Better | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Marabel a year of "15-minute intervals" to finish Total Woman-"but I knew I had to do it." She read other marriage manuals and collected the sayings of various sages-Socrates, David Reuben, Shakespeare, Dale Carnegie. She scribbled her own views on yellow legal-size paper and then Scotch-taped the pages end to end. Says she: "I was told it should be geared to a fifth-grade reading level. I didn't have to worry about that. I'm a two-syllable person." She had so little

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Housewife Blues | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...sworn in as North Carolina's new Governor at a celebration that said a good deal about the South today. There were vestiges of the Old South: the official organizers served nothing stronger than nonalcoholic Catawba grape juice, though they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina Dance Theater performed an excerpt from The Nutcracker. Said Hunt: ''We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The South A Show-Me Attitude | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter has announced that he will serve nothing stronger than wine when he moves into the White House this week, and he drinks only an occasional Scotch. That temperate approach has proved a disappointment to out-and-out prohibitionists, since Carter is a devout member of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Southern Baptists are among the driest of U.S. church groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Did Jesus Drink Wine? | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...movies are supposed to make sense anyway? I've got David M. Wolf to add a few twists to Alan's material. Sean says he never played a Saudi Arabian ambassador before and he's worried about how he'll look in a burnoose. Being Scotch, maybe he'd prefer a kilt! (Joke) Cornelia would look terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle Diary | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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