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...recreational players last year, forms of clubhouse discrimination vary. They may be denied membership or admitted only as associates of their husbands. They may be excluded from certain dining rooms and bars or get lower priority for desirable weekend- morning tee times. Last year Marcia Welch charged Pittsburgh's Wildwood Country Club with most of these indignities. The crowning insult was that the club, which she joined while married, told her to reapply and pay a new membership fee after her divorce. Even female pro players can be snubbed on the job until the tour's antibias rules take effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Bastions Of Bigotry | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...turns back on itself like a stutter-stepping snake. Nor did Berlin, who wrote his own words, generally show Cole Porter's kind of cleverness, although he could put some English on a homely sentiment in a song like Lazy (1924): "I wanna peep through the deep/ Tangled wildwood,/ Counting sheep/ 'Til I sleep/ Like a child would./ With a great big valise full of books to read where it's peaceful/ While I'm killing time being lazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: America's Master Songwriter :Irving Berlin: 1888-1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...only one on Sweet's album. The song "Wildwood Saloon" describes the travails of a woman of questionable reputation, and two other songs--"Pin a Medal on Mary" and "Stranger in the House," written by the infamous womanizer Mr. Elvis Costello--glorify adultery, which threatens to rend our societal fabric. The mock country-and-western music of these songs only makes them more deceptive, like a wolf in sheep's clothing...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Maybelle Carter, 69, matriarch of country music's Carter family; of Parkinson's disease; in Madison, Tenn. Formed in 1927, the Carter Family trio achieved lasting success by recording such traditional folk songs as Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with member Maybelle becoming celebrated for her alto voice as well as her unique guitar and autoharp licks. When the group disbanded in 1943, Carter started out anew with her three daughters as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and later toured extensively with Daughter June and her husband Singer Johnny Cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 6, 1978 | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Flyers for a deal that could provide financial security for life. Meanwhile Parent, Carol and their three young children are already living well with a five-bedroom $95,000 colonial house in suburban Cherry Hill, N.J., and a comfortable four-bedroom rented house on the Atlantic shore at Wildwood, N.J., where the Parents keep a 33-ft. Egg Harbor boat that he uses for deep-sea fishing. When he is not angling, Parent is passionately hunting with rifle and bow and arrow. Tracking mule deer at 10,000 ft. in the Colorado Rockies, Archer Parent bagged a deer the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courage and Fear in a Vortex of Violence | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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