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...still managed five birdies and a one-over-par 73 to hold the halfway lead by a comfortable two strokes. Every pro golfer has his own notions about what makes a good golf course -and few of them apparently agree with famed Architect Robert Trent Jones, who designed Spyglass Hill, the third course on which last week's Crosby was played. There were all sorts of complaints: Spyglass was "too long" (at 6,972 yds.); its greens were "too slick"; its fairways were "too heavy." For Jack, it was too frustrating. He might be able to reach Spyglass...
...Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall made a truly princely gesture: he presented the ceiling, a year's labor, to France as a gift. Without fanfare, Chagall often turns up at opera performances, whips out a spyglass to study his masterpiece furtively...
Only an incurably sentimental alumnus would deny that there was room for improvement at Charlottesville. Few U.S. campuses could match the beauty of the classic, tree-shaded University of Virginia "Grounds," laid out by Founder Thomas Jefferson. But 80-year-old Jefferson, matching the workmen through his spyglass from nearby Monticello, had dreamed of a Charlottesville that would be the "capstone of public education in Virginia"-a university for all the ablest citizens of the state, rich or poor. What it had largely become, said its critics, was an expensive finishing school for young...
...Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus spots Cuba (Sloppy Joe's, complete with girls) through his spyglass...
...night last week Carroll Alcott closed his newscast with the remark: "And now you can listen to Gregor Ziemer, the commentator who looks at the world through a spyglass and the Encyclopedia Britannica...