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...letter carried plans for the formation of a unit under his command which was to operate behind Union lines. Mosby's Tarn O'Shanter Rebels became a bugbear to the Union, a delight to Robert E. Lee, who cited Mosby oftener than he did any other Confederate officer...
...Time. This week the P.G.A. players move on to Chicago. There, at his Tam O'Shanter town & country club, Showman George S. May will stage his fourth annual golf festival. His first three made him the Billy Rose of golf impresarios-last year's total attendance was a record 67,000. This year May hopes for 90,000. He is offering the biggest prizes yet, $42,587.50 in war bonds, with general admission at $.83 (plus tax) a head...
...tournaments, almost all for the benefit of war charities, seem sure to add up to one of golf's richest seasons. Prizes in war bonds total a whopping $121,332, include the biggest ever offered to a first-place winner: $10,001 at the Tam O'Shanter Open in Chicago in August...
...Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...
Golf Facts. Month ago, May came up with his newest publicity scheme the American Golf Foundation, which would furnish golf clubs with free advice on management problems. Since 1936, May has poured $552,000 into managing Chicago's famed Tam O'Shanter Golf Club, he claims, mainly to stage razzle-dazzle tournaments like his All-American Open tournament there last summer. May picked up yards of publicity and the firm belief that most U.S. businessmen are golf-minded. So May feels that any businessman who might escape the mail-order barrage is still within an easy chip shot...