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Says beefy, 36-year-old Riviera Caddy Clyde Starr, who has often "packed" Hogan: "It takes him three hours to go nine holes in practice. He'll say, 'Here, drop 15 balls in this sand trap here.' Then he'll blast every one of them out. If he's not satisfied, he'll blast another 15. He'll even memorize the grain of the grass. He'll putt till hell won't have...
From the head of the school (Frances Starr) who would like to serve God but is forced to serve Mammon, to the student (Lois Wheeler) who lacks the courage to admit she is Jewish, people are harassed and torn two ways. All this (and kleptomania too) catches the eye of a bullying, power-hungry student (Doe Avedon), a rich trustee's daughter who, when she cannot command, can only conspire. Like the brat in The Children's Hour, she twists and messes up lives, but in this case things get straightened out before...
...hospital had raised some opposition. Ninety members of Corinth Baptist got out; they objected to the diversion of their $39,000 building fund (the congregation now worships in a private house), objected to the pastor's leasing the old building to Mrs. Starr for 20 years at a sum so low he refuses to name...
Some didn't like the fact that Mrs. Starr continued the local custom of demanding down payments from patients (except in emergency cases), and she has received some threatening letters. Says she: "I can't afford to run a charity hospital ... If I started supporting the indigent Negroes of this town, it wouldn't be long before someone would have to support...
...moment (because of a funds dispute affecting San Antonio's big Robert B. Green Hospital), the opening of Mrs. Starr's Good Samaritan meant that the city's Negroes have proportionately more bed space than is available to white San Antonians...