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...week sowed with pop bottles. Another fatted calf met its death in Atlanta. Throughout the land, professional men shook their heads once more at the thought of the money?$50,000 at very least?which one of them might have made in the next twelve-month if only Robert Tyre Jones Jr., amateur, would not continue to be the world's most mechanical, most imperturbable, most brilliant golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Interlachen | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Plantation raised, immutably a Georgian, like all Atlantans he is proud of the prowess of Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., prouder still that he once persuaded Golfer Jones to continue studying Latin at Technical High School. The legend: Golfer Jones, 14, refused to recite his Latin lessons, was invited to "talk it over" with Teacher Sutton. After discussing golf for 15 min., said Golfer Jones: "My father tells me that if I go to school I've got to take the full course, including Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: N. E. A. at Columbus | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Anciently Libyan tribes occupied the neighborhood of Carthage. They traded with Phoenicians from Tyre. About 850 B.C. Elissa, daughter of King

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics at Carthage | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Mutton 1 of Tyre, fled from her brother's tyranny and founded Carthage ("New City"). Hence she was called Dido ("The Fugitive"). She entertained Aeneas, runaway from Greek-destroyed Troy, before he went to Italy where his descendants founded the Roman Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics at Carthage | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

Newsstand clients wondered if "Bobby Jones on Golf," published by a subsidiary of Macfadden Publications Inc., was really written by Golfer Robert Tyre Jones himself. The manual, 112 pages long, contained more or less routine articles on the proper way to handle various clubs, how to correct common faults, "Tips for the Nervous Golfer," plentiful pictures (including Golfer Jones when young), a large volume of advertising. Investigation revealed that Golfer Jones had not employed a ghost, that he had originally sold the articles to Bell Features Syndicate, having patiently scrawled out his copy over weekends, to meet the regulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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