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...years, bookmakers have been quoting odds on tournament-playing golf pros as if they were race horses. Last week Chicago's Tam O' Shanter Country Club went the bookies one better: for its $15,000 Open, it asked the pros to wear numbers on their backs...
...first paragraph announced that Mrs. Simpson had arrived at Balmoral Castle while the second para graph said that the Duke & Duchess of York had opened the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. While Their Royal Highnesses were doing so. His Majesty, wearing a kilt and with a Scottish tarn o' shanter set jauntily over one ear, arrived at the Aberdeen railway station and greeted Mrs. Simpson as she alighted to be his guest...
...first hole on the Tam-0'Shanter Golf Course 75,000 Pennsylvanians and Ohioans were gathered to hear the first Landon campaign speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker...
Fifty-seven years ago, the cathedral town of St. Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...
...music as a soothing method of beginning his vacation, the Vagabond will drag his weary body to Symphony Hall, in Boston, tonight, to hear another program, presented by Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra. Here he may hear two scores by American composers. Chadwick's Ballad. "Tam o'Shanter", and Sessions Symphony in E minor. The closing part of the program will comprise Strauss tone poem, "Death and Transfiguration", and the Dance of Salome from the opera, "Salome...