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...This is going to be a mixed show," an Australian brigadier told a war correspondent at ancient Tyre last week, and no Australian brigadier ever said a fuller mouthful...
Fourteen-year-old Robert Tyre Jones Jr. stood on the first tee of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club golf course, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around, the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones, Atlanta's Boy Wonder, was the youngest golfer ever to compete in the National Amateur...
That was 25 years ago, and last week 14-year-old Robert Tyre Jones III stood on the first tee of Chattanooga's Golf and Country Club, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones III, only son of the Boy Wonder who went on to become the world's greatest golfer, was making his debut in tournament golf...
...father of craps was the English game of hazard, which is of considerable antiquity. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a specific mention of hazard as early as 1300, and say: that according to William of Tyre, who died in 1190, the game was invented by English crusaders at the siege of an Arabian castle called Hazart, or Asart. Hazard is virtually obsolete now, but was extensively played in the U. S. as late as the early 1890s...
Until he was 32, little doe-eyed Jonah, the Tyre cakeseller, merely talked with the Lord for his own personal pleasure. But when he was ordered on a propaganda mission to Nineveh, the pleasure went out of it. Why pick on him, said Jonah, he wasn't interested in joining the ragged martyrs. He wanted to be good but he wanted to make some money too. He argued, he whined, he got uppity. Nevertheless, said the Lord, you're going to Nineveh, like...