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...salesman who despite the handicap of a prison record (eleven months for forgery) hard-sold his way to leadership of the U.S.'s biggest "business engineering company," whose services he promoted by staging some of golfing's gaudiest and most lucrative tournaments at his Tarn O'Shanter Country Club outside Chicago; of a heart attack; at Tarn O'Shanter...
Malcolm Arnold: Guitar Concerto, Op. 67 (Julian Bream, guitarist, with the Melos Ensemble; RCA Victor). A haunting, fantasy-ridden score by the composer of Tarn O'Shanter and The Bridge on the River Kwai that gives the guitar a chance to sing, emote, or simply brood, as it rarely can elsewhere. Britain's Bream knows the instrument's moods as surely as any guitarist now playing...
...court in the house he built for himself of gunny sacks dipped in pink cement in the Berkeley hills, delighted his visitors by ripping off hunks of the wall to prove that they were light enough to float. Barely 5 ft. tall in his home-knitted tam-o'-shanter, Maybeck was a sartorial seventh wonder. He blueprinted the clothes for his wife Annie (whom he courted by emblazoning her initial A all over the floral motifs of the Crocker Building), designed his own smock and high-rise pants, so constructed that they did away with the need...
...Rays for the Bonk Book. What keeps many clubs going is the yearly assessment to cover the losses. Others, like Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, which has opened its clubhouse to 320 weddings so far this year, scout around for parties, conventions and tournaments, anything to make a dollar. Even some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens...
...Golf pros put up with a lot to compete for more than $200,000 in prize money at Business Engineer George S. May's four Tam O'Shanter tournaments in Chicago each summer. They pin numbers on their backs, refrain from throwing clubs when they flub shots, even mind their language. But when the Professional Golfer's Association refused to let May pocket all the entry fees to help pay the expenses of running his extravaganza, the well-heeled promoter took offense. He called off the world's richest tournaments...