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...sporting a two-day beard. He had a second sensation in reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...
...kilts and Joe Louis were going their rounds. This was Chicago Promoter George S. May's idea of a golf tournament. It was in violent conflict with most golfers' ideas, yet the top pros, from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan on down were all there. The Tam O'Shanter offered prizes totaling $50,875, golfdom's bonanza of the year...
...Tam O'Shanter Golf (Thurs. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Bill Stern describes the first day's play in the $50,000 tournament. Subsequent reports at 6:30 p.m. Friday, 4:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday...
Workers at Marinship shipyard (Sausalito, Calif.) wanted to name one of their tankers after Mt. Tamalpais (pronounced tam-el-pie'-iss), in whose shadow they work. The Navy said no. Reason: Navy regulations say that oilers shall be named after rivers, not mountains. The workers then took a leaf out of the Navy notebook. They persuaded the Marin County Board of Supervisors to christen an unnamed creek Tamalpais. Last week the Navy stiffly notified the yard that it was all right to name their oiler S.S. Tamalpais -after the stream...
...Time. This week the P.G.A. players move on to Chicago. There, at his Tam O'Shanter town & country club, Showman George S. May will stage his fourth annual golf festival. His first three made him the Billy Rose of golf impresarios-last year's total attendance was a record 67,000. This year May hopes for 90,000. He is offering the biggest prizes yet, $42,587.50 in war bonds, with general admission at $.83 (plus tax) a head...