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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given them newborn hope was the discovery of an 18-year-old Irish schoolboy, James Bruen, who skyrocketed into the realm of British stars four weeks ago, during the Walker Cup trials, when he equaled famed Bobby Jones's amateur record of 68 for the championship course at St. Andrews. His total for four rounds (68, 71, 71, 72) was three strokes better than the score Bobby Jones registered to win the 1927 British Open on that course-a total good enough to have won any championship ever played at ancient St. Andrews. Hailed as the greatest discovery since...
...St. Louis Banker Dwight Filley Davis put up the Davis tennis...
...front of the Union Station in St. Louis, U.S.A., is a large and undistinguished plaza cleared in 1931 and named after the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe. To St. Louis swelterers for seven summers Aloe Plaza has offered no refreshment beyond the discouraged tentage of a few trees...
...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
Last year, while grey-haired Carl Milles worked serenely in his three Cranbrook studios, pictures of his first clay models for the Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners...