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Surprisingly enough, it is possible to trace playing golf on the ice back to a distant origin. Samuel Parrish, one of the founders of Shinnecock Golf Club in Southampton, Long Island wrote: "One winter's day in the '90s Major Morton and myself went over to Lake Agawam to hit a few balls around on the ice. The Major suggested that I make an attempt to break all records for driving a golf ball. We selected a suitable spot and I managed to hit a good one which, with a strong wind, carried to the ice and, once...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

Inevitably, such growth in an area dealing in such a precious commodity is accompanied by friction and occasional sparks of violence. Earlier this month, Martin Paretsky, 71, left the street with $500,000 in diamonds, heading for a meeting at the nearby Hilton Hotel. No trace of him has been found. Two days later, Satya Narian Gupta, 27, one of the handful of Indian dealers on the street, left his office with $300,000 worth of stones. Three days later, his body was found bound and strangled in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. There have been no arrests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diamonds Are Forever | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...superb cast lends Taken in Marriage a trace of conviction. There is an aching honesty to Quinlan's Annie as she tries to hold a mirror up to her troubled heart. Streep's alabaster features can convey icy disdain and mock merriment. Her voice is a bed of nails on which she some times lies in self-contempt. As Ruth, Dewhurst was a Rock of Gibraltar. Marchand is better suited to the role, a homebody with artistic impulses who needs a hus band for ballast. Though she has her cranky moments, Wilson's Aunt Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cornfessional | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Nicole. Claudy looks like she belongs on the cover of a fashion magazine. Unfortunately, she fails to do much more justice to her character, even if one takes into account the script's peculiar lack of lines for Nicole. The lines Claudy has she delivers flatly, with hardly a trace of the storm that must brew inside a woman having a passionate affair with her younger brother...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: A Family Affair | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

Mark Fidler puts in a shot for B.U.'s first goal. He skates back to the bench with no visible trace of excitement...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Green Line Change: UNH Over B.U. | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

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