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...Shanter's verdant fairways last week. Promoter May was running off golf's biggest money event, the $75,000 "World" Championship, first played in 1943 with a mere prestige pennant as its prize. Among the 119 starters were 22 topnotch foreign golfers whose traveling expenses were footed by Promoter May. Six big signboards showed the leaders' scores, relayed hole by hole via phone and walkie-talkie. On the championship's final day, with hamburgers going for 60(f, some 10,000 fans, who had each paid a record $6 for admission, trailed golf...
...James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific; actually, Tehuantepec is on an isthmus only 1,262 miles down the Pan American Highway from the U.S.A. Set in a thorny and desolate countryside, the town, watered by the Tehuantepec River, is a lush oasis, verdant with coconut palms and mango trees. But Tehuantepec's great traditional allure comes mostly from the beauty of its women, the famed Tehuanas...
Situated in the verdant valley of the Wattsatonic river of Central Vermont, stands quietly revolutionary Open University, dedicated to the twin aims of individual development of the free spirit, and whole-hearted devotion to a principled way of life. The faculty, students, and trustees of Open feel quite frankly that it is the perfect university...
After that C. Blevins Davis strode forward holding the watering can of wealth. The rocky pathway he had endured for so long turned verdant and fruitful, and headwaiters stepped forth softly to greet him and smile with lowered eyes. He became a patron of the arts and sponsored a show of new German paintings in Munich. He threw a reception and dinner party for his old neighbors, President & Mrs. Harry Truman, at his fabulous Missouri farm, frequently squired daughter Margaret to public functions...
Impressionist Steer's England is a frankly scenic place with rolling hills, verdant valleys, billowing clouds. At their best, his canvases, like those of Turner and Constable, give new life to familiar prospects, his watercolors catch fleeting tricks of sunlight and shadow with a few decisive strokes...