Word: st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together. They rent the place and three acres of ground from Novelist Victoria Sackville-West, but are giving it up this month to move to the French island of Illiec, off the north coast of Brittany. Mme Carrel, who lives most of the year on the neighboring island of St. Gildas, recently secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion that the shy and, for their children, understandably frightened Lindberghs desire. But when the English Channel tide is out, the Lindberghs may walk over almost...
Hero was Marvin Ward, generally regarded as the weakest member of the U.S. team, who bettered Bobby Jones's amateur record for the St. Andrews course by shooting a 67 in the morning round of his match with English Champion Frank Pennink, drubbed him, 12 & 11. The widely touted, 200-lb. Irish schoolboy, 18-year-old Jim Bruen, got a typical case of Walker Cup jitters, lost to light-hearted Charley Yates, recently crowned British Amateur champion. U. S. Amateur Champion Johnny Goodman played in two losing matches...
...captured their fancy with his drolleries during his visit in Scotland. "Let's all sing a little song," drawled Yankee Yates of Atlanta, Ga., and he began to warble a Scottish air. Everybody laughed, everybody sang, and skirling bagpipes resounded over the Scottish dunes, out into St. Andrew...
Operetta is no longer what it used to be. But last month Los Angeles launched a swank season of operetta revivals, and similar festivals have been scheduled for this summer in Louisville, Cleveland, St. Louis, as well as in Manhattan's Randall's Island and Long Island's Jones Beach. Most important of these festivals, that of the 20-year-old St. Louis Municipal Theater Association, opened last week with a repertory that included such old-timers as Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener...
...Pittsburgh 17 years ago, a devout, 20-year-old Roman Catholic named Raymond Heintz had a vocation for the priesthood. He earned his way through high school, Duquesne University, St. Vincent's Seminary by driving a taxicab. Last week, wearing clericals as seminarians do, Raymond Heintz turned in his last trip card to the cab company. Next week he is to be ordained. Pittsburgh taximen, 500 of whom planned to attend Father Heintz's first Mass, got up a fund, presented him with a fine gold chalice...