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...kills Hope to concede a putt, too. Most players will do so if the distance between ball and cup is "within the leather"-the length measured from the bottom of the handgrip to the club head. Not Bob; he always insists on measuring with whatever club has the longest grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...stories I've heard," Fisher says, "is that when the British government was petitioned over a long time to send money for a pier for the Anguillians--they needed a dock; it's a fishing island and the longest pier was maybe 25 feet long and could only take a dinghy--Britain finally sent money to the administration on St. Kitts for such a pier. And it was built: it's called "Anguilla Pier" and it's on St. Kitts...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Lawyer Has Island for A Client | 12/16/1967 | See Source »

...significance of these two songs above and beyond their new album, "Magical Mystery Tour", is evident in their pre-release as a single. The first, (I am the Walrus), is their most erudite, least musical, and longest ever; as the Beatles biggest extravaganza, it's even more enigmatic than "Strawberry Fields...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Goo Goo Goo Joob | 12/14/1967 | See Source »

...Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy along with smaller subsidiaries, including the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and the Pacific Coast Railroad. With 24,600 miles of track stretching across more than a quarter of the nation, the G.N.P. & B. will be the U.S.'s longest railroad. Consolidated revenues of $850 million a year will rank it right behind the Pennsylvania and the Southern Pacific. With annual savings from combined operation as high as $41.7 million, the new giant should emerge as one of the most profitable railroads in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: The Northerns | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...third, the most interesting, a chamber high, dim, and severe, consecrated to the sons of the University who fell in the long Civil War. Ransom and his companion wandered from one part of the building to another, and stayed their steps at several impressive points; but they lingered longest in the presence of the white, ranged tablets, each of which, in its proud, sad clearness, is inscribed with the name of a student soldier...

Author: By The Bostonians and Henry James, S | Title: Memorial Hall -- 1886 | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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