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Only four of the five judges wore the traditional tam-o'-shanter caps, but all five were traditionalist enough to get down on their hands & knees to peer and poke at the curlicues of ice shavings. The occasion, solemnified at Indianapolis last week by the undignified postures of the judges: the figure skating tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team...
...Hogan, with a blazing final 6-under-par round of 66 for a 72-hole total of 273, the $12,500 top money (golf's biggest prize) in the Tarn O'Shanter Country Club's $50,000 tournament; at Chicago. Tied for eighth place: Lloyd Mangrum, who played his home course under police guard after a threatening telephone call (TIME...
This week, in Chicago for the All-American Tournament at suburban Tarn O'Shanter Country Club, Sam Snead just scoffed at the "threats," declared: "I get calls from guys like that all the time." But as the tournament got under way, both Snead and Mangrum, playing under the watchful eyes of a convoy of cops and plainclothesmen, were clearly off their games. Mangrum wound up tied for sixth place; Snead was out of the running. The winner: former (1949) U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff, with...
...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
...Shanter's "World Championship" round this week, Locke picked up another: $1,250 12th-place money...