Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...manages to sound as if he really means such glib disk-jockey patter as, "Let me pull up a hunk of wood and sit down with you." This air of sincerity is Clark's biggest attraction. Though ABC has mailed out 300.000 of his photographs since last summer, boyishly handsome Clark believes that most teen-agers see him less as a romantic idol than as the ideal big brother who understands their problems. On the problem of rock 'n' roll, Clark says: "Teenagers have always liked stuff their parents couldn't stand...
...rugged round of rock 'n' roll for TV has left him no time for Hollywood. In fact, he is so busy rolling in the money as the Pied Piper of the teen-agers that when his wife Barbara and their year-old son move this summer into a new beach house that Clark's jack has built on the Maryland shore, he simply won't have time to join them...
...SUMMER PLACE (369 pp.)-Sloan Wilson-Simon & Schuster...
...answers to these and sundry other questions are offered in a fictional session of bland man's buff by Sloan Wilson, the man who did more for gray flannel suits than Brooks Brothers. The novel's key setting is Pine Island, Me., a summer retreat and a kind of "perverted Garden of Eden from which one was expelled for the sin of poverty." Among the unexpelled nouveau poor are the Hunters, who eke out their stay as genteel innkeepers. Fortyish Bart Hunter is an existentially minded drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned...