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Perhaps the greater appeal of the Walker Cup is that the amateurs have preserved a patriotic ardor. This is especially true of the British side. Having won only two out of the 26 Walker Cup Matches, the undaunted British have countless times striven to field a team with that special winning chemistry. Despite many near misses, they have achieved success only...
...mind that I'm not that character." Maurice Stans, chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President, calls the whole production "so far from the actual life in Washington that it can only harm the country by making people think that this is a true picture of the capital...
Indeed, autumn deserves a hymn-and it has received far less tribute than it deserves. True, some mixed notices have come in over the centuries. Horace slandered autumn as a "dread" period-"harvest-season of the Goddess of Death." He was dead wrong, of course, for as Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn...
...Reading Lardner's work is almost more of a lesson in American history than pure pleasure reading, and it follows that Jonathan Yardley's biography of the legendary journalist, Ring, is almost more of a history book than a biography. But it is a book of the sort that true lovers of baseball and a "progressive" minded American society can relish, perhaps with an added touch of jealousy for the way things "used...
...Ring" has a sad ending, but still we are left remembering him as a man who succeeded in entertaining millions of Americans, and even more, as a man who loved his work. Despite his feelings of failure, we feel he must have had a true appreciation for America in a patriotic sense, because it would otherwise have been impossible to produce the great quantity of humor and parodies in such a short lifetime...