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Obstructions. The fence which the old Westbury Golf Club intends to put up to keep Roosevelt Field, L. I., flyers from scaring players and tearing up the turf (TIME, July 1), is to consist of steel towers 103 ft. high, 300 ft. apart, with steel wires connecting them, according to last week's plans...
...brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt to halve. She putted. For the first twelve feet the ball rolled so fast that it made a white line on the green. Then it slowed, took minutes and minutes. Finally it dropped into the hole in the turf. Miss Collett managed to halve the next hole but on the 17th she lost. Score: 3 up. 1 to go. When Miss Wethered won her last hole, 100 young girls from St. Andrew's University, dressed in bright red cloaks, cheered with happy, piping voices...
Edsel Ford dug the first turf last week for a new Ford plant in Degenham, Essex, England. So manfully dug he that he bent his silver spade. The factory, to be finished in less than three years, will employ 15,000, make 300,000 Fords yearly...
...head of the firm is Fal de Saint Phalle, whose clubs include the Knickerbocker, the Tuxedo, and the Turf and Field, whose wife is the daughter of Mrs. E. Guidet Auchincloss, of Paris. The wives of partners Alexandre and Count Andre de Saint Phalle are sisters. They were Helen and Jacqueline Harper, daughters of Donald Harper, of Paris, who has been mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France. His son, Donald Jr., is a partner in de Saint Phalle & Co. Partner Francois de Saint Phalle manages the Philadelphia office. Before forming the present firm, Fal de Saint Phalle...
...small iron bench in the Pincian Hill gardens slept a holy man. His breviary had fallen from his lap to the grassy turf. Children gravely gathered beside him, for it seemed to them there could be no mistaking the man's grey hair, his glasses, his still, regular features. "Is it he?" whispered one to another...