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...found a rift in the fog, nosed downward for a landing. As he leveled off, a wave slapped the wings, and the plane crashed in shallow water. Embiricos died at the controls. Carried ashore by lifeguards, Mrs. Young died forty minutes later. Her dog was found dead in the surf, not far from the wreck...
Last week, if Tahiti was scarcely more than a tiny, surf-washed symbol of the French Empire, that symbol adorned the cause of Free France...
Archibald MacLeish (at University of Pennsylvania): "Those who tell you that the destroying guns, the ruinous bombs, the fire, the misery, the indiscriminate death of the Fascist military action are a new, creative, irresistible historic force which you cannot oppose but only ride with as the rubbish rides the surf are victims prophesying with the tongues of victims...
Fourteen-year-old Robert Tyre Jones Jr. stood on the first tee of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club golf course, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around, the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones, Atlanta's Boy Wonder, was the youngest golfer ever to compete in the National Amateur...
That was 25 years ago, and last week 14-year-old Robert Tyre Jones III stood on the first tee of Chattanooga's Golf and Country Club, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones III, only son of the Boy Wonder who went on to become the world's greatest golfer, was making his debut in tournament golf...