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...21st birthday. But it has become the Year of the Young Lions. For the first time in history, the first three majors have been won by players under age 30, with Woods getting the green jacket, South African Ernie Els, 27, collecting his second U.S. Open trophy and Texan Justin Leonard, 25, taking home the claret jug of the British Open. All in all, twenty-somethings have fired enough 60-somethings to win 15 of the 30 events on the tour this year. Five of the Top 9 money winners, and 10 of the Top 38, are in their...
...largely to Texas cattle baroness Anne Marion and her husband John, the former chairman of Sotheby's North America. Approached in 1995 to contribute funds and some of her O'Keeffe paintings to the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Anne Marion decided on a dramatic and wholly Texan response: establish a museum devoted to O'Keeffe herself...
...movies they made together, Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight, were such box-office poison, the couple say they intend to keep working together. Perhaps they'll even take a leaf out of JERRY HALL and MICK JAGGER's book of marital adventures. Barely seven months after the Texan temptress called on Princess Diana's divorce lawyer for a wee spot of legal advice, she's three months pregnant with the couple's fourth child. Jagger, 53, already has two grandchildren for his newest offspring to frolic with...
Molly Ivins once said, with respect to the elder George Bush, that no one is a true Texan who uses "summer" as a verb. If summer drives you away from where you live, your roots are indeed suspect. If it doesn't, though, and you live in Texas or any other state south of Maine, the only verb you use for three months of the year is buried in the contraction "innit," as in "Whee-ooo, innit...
...Suzanne Parchman, a resident of Fort Davis, yesterday, referring to the blockade against the Texan secessionists that has driven her out of her home...