Word: trent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along its narrow fairways, deep traps snare drives with the slightest hook. Around its undulating greens, bunkers catch approach shots with the smallest error. Golf Course Architect Robert Trent Jones fondly calls it "the greatest test of championship golf in the world." But to the 150 golfers who teed off in gusty winds last week to start the 61st U.S. Open, one of golf's most coveted prizes, Jones's 6,907-yd. Oakland Hills course in Birmingham, Mich., was simply "the Monster...
...With a working-class background, she was full of phlegm because "there were hunger marches outside, and inside were girls being taught this tennis-club stuff." After completing the course, she left London on foot to walk north to seek her career, collapsed after 112 miles in Burton-on-Trent. scrubbed out a pub to get fare to go on to Manchester. There she got a job acting, writing and directing...
...soap opera is an island. When Helen Trent died in June, the bell was really tolling for Ma Perkins, The Second Mrs. Burton and all their kin. Over the past decade radio networks have been steadily losing time to their affiliated stations (who prefer to schedule local disk jockeys, with whom they can make far more money). Across the country fewer stations scheduled network drama every season; sooner or later the "soaps" had to go. NBC scrapped them at the beginning of this year. Last week CBS announced that the last seven on the air would...
Until famed Golf Architect Robert Trent Jones finished his pernicious labors, the Firestone Country Club, private pasture of U.S. rubber barons, had offered nothing more complicated than a pleasant social sojourn on a workday afternoon...
Died. Helen Trent, 28, queen of the soap operas, oldest sudser on the air (by three weeks over Ma Perkins), veteran of no husbands but of romances with every sort of fellow from handsome billionaires and hypnotists to psychotics and smooth-talking thugs, cause of a movie tycoon's suicide, a rancher's self-exile to a banana republic, once heard by 4,000,000 listeners on 203 CBS affiliate stations; of hardening of the kilocycles (despite respectable ratings); in Manhattan...