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...Chicago's Olympia Fields Country Club, the Golf Writers Association of America trotted out the new Walter Hagen Trophy, which is to be awarded yearly for "distinguished contribution to the furtherance of Anglo-American golf" in the name of the longtime lion of the links who first won respectability for the once sub-pariah professional. When the selection committee finally chose the award's first winner, it turned out to be Hagen himself, now 68 and an executive of the Wilson Sporting Goods...
...first and practically final version, Ship of Fools has been in the making for 20 years-"or 30 if I count how long I thought about it." Based on a diary she kept on a 1931 voyage from Veracruz to Bremerhaven aboard a German ship crowded with Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon and Latin types, Ship of Fools is an oceangoing Grand Hotel, which tells in parable form of the slothful, harmless and irresponsible people who made possible the rise of fascism. "I took for my own this ageless, almost universal image of the ship of this world on its voyage...
...Czech refugee who had stolen food to stay alive, the human decency displayed by all hands is all the more impressive because it is done without show or procedural fanfare. And yet, amid all the patient and infinitely cumbersome machinery of justice based on the Roman law, the Anglo-Saxon "sporting spirit, the notion of the law as a game of skill with handicaps to give each side a chance, is entirely absent from the Continent...
...some Episcopal unity. Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of Manhattan's nondenominational Union Theological Seminary, last week charged the Episcopalians with being notoriously balky on the road to reunion: "All they want to do is talk and pray." Back of the balkiness is the small but powerful Anglo-Catholic wing, the high churchmen who cherish the doctrine of apostolic succession* so devoutly that the only groups they think worth talking to are other apostolic successionists. such as the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches...
Ormsby-Gore will replace Career Diplomat Sir Harold Caccia, 55, who has been in the job nearly five years, and among other things was largely responsible for smoothing over Anglo-U.S. differences after Suez. Sir Harold will step up to Permanent Under Secretary of State, highest job attainable by a career diplomat...