Word: tyre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge, sits Laurel Falls, a swank camp-school for girls. There for more than 20 years magnetic, pompadoured Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith has taught a special kind of school. Some 60 well-to-do kids (including, last year, Golfer Robert Tyre Jones's daughters Clara and Ellen) are given, among other things, the facts of life according to the latest precepts of progressive education...
...Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 43, back with his old law firm since his Army discharge last fall, recalled his grand-slam golfing days by burning up Atlanta's Capital City Country Club course with a five-below-par 65. Urged by fellow Atlantans to enter their $10,000 tournament in April, Bobby said: "I will when I get my game down to the point where the gallery will be safe...
Back in the days of Tyre and Nineveh, in ancient Rome and more ancient Greece, the waiters in the early versions of the Stork Club presented checks face down to the customers, as a matter of courtesy and tact. The custom has held good down through the ages, with waiter trainees being admonished by their professors that it is a cardinal faux pas in cabaret etiquette to offer the "tab" facing boldly...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr. '24, better known as Bobby, set a standard for Harvard golfers which has never since been equalled. No one is making any pretenses that this year's Yardling links squad is the best since the days of the Atlanta wonder, but Coach Don Peddle frankly admits it tops any in the last five years. Unbeaten sin six starts, the Freshmen take on Yale tomorrow...
...Biblical renown, sister city of Tyre, the other great Phoenician seaport...