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Post by rizzuto on Mar 1, 2022 21:48:28 GMT -5
What a memory you have, Pipps! Gary Player is definitely an oversight on my part. The Black Knight was on the Mount Rushmore of golfers of that era, along with Palmer and Nicklaus. Billy Casper is indeed the most underrated golfer in PGA history and arguably one of the best putters ever in the history of the game. There were so many golfers in the 1960s and 1970s who just knew how to win down the stretch. Outside of Tiger and Phil and the several two or three-year run golfers, too many tournaments down to the wire become battles of bogey attrition. Backing into wins, rather than taking the trophy. Many thought Johnny Miller was the next Nicklaus, mostly because of the blonde hair, but nobody was as lethal with irons like Miller in his prime, except for Bryon Nelson. Whereas Nicklaus could putt from anywhere, Miller just eliminated the worry by tapping in lasers that landed within inches of the flag. I love the passing of the baton of the greats in golf history. Anyone who saw Bobby Jones play golf - when he was healthy - knew they were watching something different. The way he carried himself set the code of comportment on the course for a generation and the next. Palmer and Jack were pitted against each other by fans and sports writers. As Nicklaus once remarked, "I had to worry about fighting Arnie's Army, but I never had to worry about fighting Palmer." The two were close friends who loved the competition but it ended after the round. Arnie and Jack always had their priorities happily in order, in large part to the love and guidance of their fathers. One of my favorite stories was a teenage Arnold Palmer watching his father being dressed down by a muckity-muck who complained about him letting his son occasionally hit balls on the course. Palmer later bought the golf course. How's that for winning the long game? Nicklaus has stories about Ben Hogan seeking him out to play practice rounds, except Hogan never wanted to putt out. He just wanted to play Jack tee to green. Speaking of story tellers, none were better than Gene Sarazen, who could go back to Harry Vardon - another giant of the game. I miss playing golf. On the way to my sister's house, I always pass a golf course on the way and memories just flood into mind. Tomorrow afternoon, I have a second interview for a job. If it all works out, I'll be a huge step closer to dusting off my golf bag, buying tickets for a Yankee game with Kaybli, and sitting on a restaurant patio in New Orleans with you and your better half. Here's to hearing that seven iron "click" again and watching that Titleist rise to meet a bright blue Texas sky.  For whatever value you place on it, I’m sending my strongest intonations your way to give you the power to say the correct words to cinch down that job… Gracias, Amigo! I'll interview naked in your sombrero if it helps me land the job! Incantations, invocations, intonations, poems, prayers, and promises are all welcomed.  |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 1, 2022 21:51:07 GMT -5
RIZZ: Hoping that you get the job. --To gurantee you get the job just show them a picture of Tequila and tell them that by hiring you they get 2 for 1 = You & Tequila just at your Salary.
AND/OR: Just walk into the Interview, look at the Person and say, You are FIRED!!! I am your replacement (That my friend is Confidence).
AND/OR: Start crying, saying you need the job/salary in order to care for and feed Tequila --Show them Tequila's Pic and cry even more.
AND/OR: Tell them if they do not hire you at Top Salary -- That will you get The Inger to start posting on all their Social Media Sites = YOU WILL GET tHE JOB!!
Best of Luck. Damn JUST DO IT!!! -- I gave you extra Tequila Pics for your interview use...
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 1, 2022 22:08:33 GMT -5
There were so many golfers in the 1960s and 1970s who just knew how to win down the stretch. Outside of Tiger and Phil and the several two or three-year run golfers, too many tournaments down to the wire become battles of bogey attrition. Backing into wins, rather than taking the trophy. Many thought Johnny Miller was the next Nicklaus, mostly because of the blonde hair, but nobody was as lethal with irons like Miller in his prime, except for Bryon Nelson. Whereas Nicklaus could putt from anywhere, Miller just eliminated the worry by tapping in lasers that landed within inches of the flag. I love the passing of the baton of the greats in golf history. Anyone who saw Bobby Jones play golf - when he was healthy - knew they were watching something different. The way he carried himself set the code of comportment on the course for a generation and the next. Palmer and Jack were pitted against each other by fans and sports writers. As Nicklaus once remarked, "I had to worry about fighting Arnie's Army, but I never had to worry about fighting Palmer." The two were close friends who loved the competition but it ended after the round. Arnie and Jack always had their priorities happily in order, in large part to the love and guidance of their fathers. One of my favorite stories was a teenage Arnold Palmer watching his father being dressed down by a muckity-muck who complained about him letting his son occasionally hit balls on the course. Palmer later bought the golf course. How's that for winning the long game? Nicklaus has stories about Ben Hogan seeking him out to play practice rounds, except Hogan never wanted to putt out. He just wanted to play Jack tee to green. Speaking of story tellers, none were better than Gene Sarazen, who could go back to Harry Vardon - another giant of the game. I miss playing golf. On the way to my sister's house, I always pass a golf course on the way and memories just flood into mind. Tomorrow afternoon, I have a second interview for a job. If it all works out, I'll be a huge step closer to dusting off my golf bag, buying tickets for a Yankee game with Kaybli, and sitting on a restaurant patio in New Orleans with you and your better half. Here's to hearing that seven iron "click" again and watching that Titleist rise to meet a bright blue Texas sky. Well first and most importantly, heartfelt best wishes for your job interview my friend. At the appropriate time, do let us know how it went. If that's all that stands between you and a return to the links, it just has to happen, that's all. Did you know that Gene Sarazen was good friends from childhood with Ed Sullivan? One of the many treats of visiting Augusta National -- and it's an absolute requirement to go there -- is to see the plaque commemorating The Squire's famous double eagle on 15 in 1935. That really put The Masters on the map. There have been 16 double eagles at majors, but only twice -- Sarazen in 1935 and the god-like Young Tom Morris at The Open in 1870 -- came from players who won the tournament. Sarazen is one of only five golfers with a career Grand Slam (in the modern sense), the others being Jack, Tiger, Hogan and Player. Sarazen was indeed a great raconteur, and you probably remember him doing TV broadcasts and hitting the honorary first shot at Augusta up until a few months before he died at age 97. As for that passing the torch -- how wonderful was it that Gene Sarazen and Bobby Jones both played in the 1920 U.S. Open at the age of 18 against the great Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, who were 50 and 43 respectively? In fact Jones and Vardon were paired in the opening round. So Sarazen, who lived until 1999, teed it up against Vardon, who was born in 1870. Ray won that Open and Vardon was tied for second. And Vardon in his younger days was congratulated on his play by none other than Old Tom Morris. I'm pretty sure he represents the beginning of time. So Old Tom watched Vardon, who competed against Sarazen, who hit honorary tee shots at a Masters won by Tiger Woods. Only three degrees of separation. Vardon and Ray did as much as anyone to popularize golf in the U.S. in the first two decades of the twentieth century with their tours of the country. Both from the Isle of Jersey. There are clips of Vardon swinging floating around on YouTube. So cool to watch. Give that man modern equipment and he'd be killing them today. Great Arnie story. He always won in the long run. Thanks for the well-wishes, Pipps! And, I did not know about Sarazen and Ed Sullivan! I used to tell my friends that there was only one thing keeping me off the PGA Tour: my scores. Golf is such a wonderfully aggravating sport of minutiae. The best pieces written on sport have been about golf and golfers. As you know, I subscribe to the small-ball philosophy of sports writing: The smaller the ball, the better the story. Sarazen's double-eagle is probably the most famous shot in the history of golf. And, I had no idea about the three degrees of separation from Old Tom Morris to El Tigre. Young Tom Morris was considered the greatest player in the history of golf until Bobby Jones, but Harry Vardon deserves some consideration in that regard. I loved the book (and the movie, just less so) about Francis Quimet winning the 1913 US Open at Brookline in a playoff against Vardon and Ray. In fact, the 2022 US Open shall be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. It would be a kick to go watch a round there in my Yankee gear! |
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Post by domeplease on Mar 3, 2022 18:00:05 GMT -5
MICK might wawnt to think about getting his Mouth Sown Up???!!!
Tiger Woods - not Phil Mickelson - wins PGA Tour's inaugural PIP.
"...Woods finished first on the list – which uses a compiled score from five criteria, Nielsen ratings, Google searches, MVP Index, Meltwater Mentions and Q-Rating, based on a player’s appeal and popularity on social media – followed by Phil Mickelson in second place. Woods was awarded an $8 million bonus and Mickelson’s bonus was $6 million for finishing second.
Mickelson announced on Twitter in late December that he’d won the PIP: “I’d like to thank all the crazies (and real supporters too) for … helping me win the PIP!!” In the same tweet Mickelson also explained that to get the $8 million bonus he had to add an event he hadn’t recently played (Sentry Tournament of Champions).
The Tour, however, pushed back on Mickelson’s claim, pointing out the Nielsen ratings are compiled quarterly and wouldn’t be available from the fall until mid-February. According to one member of the Player Advisory Council the Tour also had the results audited before making them public.
TEQUILA is upset since she cannot find her name on the List--Will have to give her some strawberries to settle her down...go figure.
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 3, 2022 20:17:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the well-wishes, Pipps! And, I did not know about Sarazen and Ed Sullivan! I used to tell my friends that there was only one thing keeping me off the PGA Tour: my scores. Golf is such a wonderfully aggravating sport of minutiae. The best pieces written on sport have been about golf and golfers. As you know, I subscribe to the small-ball philosophy of sports writing: The smaller the ball, the better the story. Sarazen's double-eagle is probably the most famous shot in the history of golf. And, I had no idea about the three degrees of separation from Old Tom Morris to El Tigre. Young Tom Morris was considered the greatest player in the history of golf until Bobby Jones, but Harry Vardon deserves some consideration in that regard. I loved the book (and the movie, just less so) about Francis Quimet winning the 1913 US Open at Brookline in a playoff against Vardon and Ray. In fact, the 2022 US Open shall be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. It would be a kick to go watch a round there in my Yankee gear! Aargh, I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize the US Open was being held at The Country Club this year. I would for sure have bought tickets, but by now we have unbreakable plans that make it impossible. I did get there once for a business meeting and got to walk a bit of the course, but that's not the same thing. I agree, Mark Frost's "The Greatest Game Ever Played" is one of my all-time favorite sports books. A real-life fairy tale that shouldn't possibly have happened, but it did. Francis Ouimet was another true sportsman, from the same mold as Bobby Jones, maybe even a working class version of Bobby. Another of those odd connections -- Ouimet worked in the Boston sporting goods store of baseball pioneer George Wright, who played for the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Ouimet's amazing ten-year-old caddie at that famous Open, Eddie Lowrey, went on to become a wealthy auto dealer in San Francisco and was heavily involved in supporting golfers, among them Ken Venturi and Champagne Tony Lema. You probably know about the spontaneous event he arranged at Pebble Beach in the mid-50s, where he got Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson to compete in a four-ball match against the top two amateurs at the time, Venturi and Harvie Mann. Another great story by Frost recounted in "The Match." Frost also wrote a book about Bobby Jones and the Grand Slam. I have all three of his golf books and they are all masterpieces. |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 3, 2022 20:39:57 GMT -5
Thanks for the well-wishes, Pipps! And, I did not know about Sarazen and Ed Sullivan! I used to tell my friends that there was only one thing keeping me off the PGA Tour: my scores. Golf is such a wonderfully aggravating sport of minutiae. The best pieces written on sport have been about golf and golfers. As you know, I subscribe to the small-ball philosophy of sports writing: The smaller the ball, the better the story. Sarazen's double-eagle is probably the most famous shot in the history of golf. And, I had no idea about the three degrees of separation from Old Tom Morris to El Tigre. Young Tom Morris was considered the greatest player in the history of golf until Bobby Jones, but Harry Vardon deserves some consideration in that regard. I loved the book (and the movie, just less so) about Francis Quimet winning the 1913 US Open at Brookline in a playoff against Vardon and Ray. In fact, the 2022 US Open shall be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. It would be a kick to go watch a round there in my Yankee gear! Aargh, I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize the US Open was being held at The Country Club this year. I would for sure have bought tickets, but by now we have unbreakable plans that make it impossible. I did get there once for a business meeting and got to walk a bit of the course, but that's not the same thing. I agree, Mark Frost's "The Greatest Game Ever Played" is one of my all-time favorite sports books. A real-life fairy tale that shouldn't possibly have happened, but it did. Francis Ouimet was another true sportsman, from the same mold as Bobby Jones, maybe even a working class version of Bobby. Another of those odd connections -- Ouimet worked in the Boston sporting goods store of baseball pioneer George Wright, who played for the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Ouimet's amazing ten-year-old caddie at that famous Open, Eddie Lowrey, went on to become a wealthy auto dealer in San Francisco and was heavily involved in supporting golfers, among them Ken Venturi and Champagne Tony Lema. You probably know about the spontaneous event he arranged at Pebble Beach in the mid-50s, where he got Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson to compete in a four-ball match against the top two amateurs at the time, Venturi and Harvie Mann. Another great story by Frost recounted in "The Match." Frost also wrote a book about Bobby Jones and the Grand Slam. I have all three of his golf books and they are all masterpieces. I don’t have “The Match,” but I have the other two. Mark Frost does such a wonderful job bringing those past matches alive. I’ll keep an eye out for the book. And, I think the only time I heard about that match up was during a broadcast with Venturi, who made a couple remarks about the contest. Venturi worshipped Ben Hogan. I always thought Ken was a bit jealous of Jack Nicklaus. Speaking of Nicklaus, did you ever see this: |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 3, 2022 21:01:20 GMT -5
Just amazing. Only Jack could do that. I had never seen that before, so thanks for posting it.
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Post by inger on Mar 3, 2022 21:35:51 GMT -5
Aargh, I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize the US Open was being held at The Country Club this year. I would for sure have bought tickets, but by now we have unbreakable plans that make it impossible. I did get there once for a business meeting and got to walk a bit of the course, but that's not the same thing. I agree, Mark Frost's "The Greatest Game Ever Played" is one of my all-time favorite sports books. A real-life fairy tale that shouldn't possibly have happened, but it did. Francis Ouimet was another true sportsman, from the same mold as Bobby Jones, maybe even a working class version of Bobby. Another of those odd connections -- Ouimet worked in the Boston sporting goods store of baseball pioneer George Wright, who played for the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Ouimet's amazing ten-year-old caddie at that famous Open, Eddie Lowrey, went on to become a wealthy auto dealer in San Francisco and was heavily involved in supporting golfers, among them Ken Venturi and Champagne Tony Lema. You probably know about the spontaneous event he arranged at Pebble Beach in the mid-50s, where he got Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson to compete in a four-ball match against the top two amateurs at the time, Venturi and Harvie Mann. Another great story by Frost recounted in "The Match." Frost also wrote a book about Bobby Jones and the Grand Slam. I have all three of his golf books and they are all masterpieces. I don’t have “The Match,” but I have the other two. Mark Frost does such a wonderful job bringing those past matches alive. I’ll keep an eye out for the book. And, I think the only time I heard about that match up was during a broadcast with Venturi, who made a couple remarks about the contest. Venturi worshipped Ben Hogan. I always thought Ken was a bit jealous of Jack Nicklaus. Speaking of Nicklaus, did you ever see this: A thing of beauty… |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 3, 2022 22:50:20 GMT -5
Just amazing. Only Jack could do that. I had never seen that before, so thanks for posting it. That was the opening of a course Nicklaus had designed, and where the ball was sitting was originally fairway that Jack decided to make part of the green. Johnny Miller, thinking himself out of the putt, was considering hitting a chip. Jack, knowing people were watching, didn’t want golfers and pros in tournaments sticking wedges into and ruining the green. Jack knew if he hit that putt it would shut down Miller - and any future golfers - from abandoning the putter in that position. At the end, you can hear Miller lament, “That was really rolling, Jack,” implying the putt would have gone way past if it wasn’t holed. Johnny ended up putting, though, which is what Jack wanted. Now, anyone in that position will remember Jack’s path to the hole and try to recreate the putt. |
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Post by inger on Mar 3, 2022 23:20:56 GMT -5
Just amazing. Only Jack could do that. I had never seen that before, so thanks for posting it. That was the opening of a course Nicklaus had designed, and where the ball was sitting was originally fairway that Jack decided to make part of the green. Johnny Miller, thinking himself out of the putt, was considering hitting a chip. Jack, knowing people were watching, didn’t want golfers and pros in tournaments sticking wedges into and ruining the green. Jack knew if he hit that putt it would shut down Miller - and any future golfers - from abandoning the putter in that position. At the end, you can hear Miller lament, “That was really rolling, Jack,” implying the putt would have gone way past if it wasn’t holed. Johnny ended up putting, though, which is what Jack wanted. Now, anyone in that position will remember Jack’s path to the hole and try to recreate the putt. Putting off the green is an unappreciated art. I used to do it quite a bit, which always seemed to surprise the other golfers. In fact, I used to use my putter for certain “trouble shots” out of the rough. Nobody was going to pay me for the results on a consistent basis, but it worked fairly well for me… |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 3, 2022 23:32:10 GMT -5
That was the opening of a course Nicklaus had designed, and where the ball was sitting was originally fairway that Jack decided to make part of the green. Johnny Miller, thinking himself out of the putt, was considering hitting a chip. Jack, knowing people were watching, didn’t want golfers and pros in tournaments sticking wedges into and ruining the green. Jack knew if he hit that putt it would shut down Miller - and any future golfers - from abandoning the putter in that position. At the end, you can hear Miller lament, “That was really rolling, Jack,” implying the putt would have gone way past if it wasn’t holed. Johnny ended up putting, though, which is what Jack wanted. Now, anyone in that position will remember Jack’s path to the hole and try to recreate the putt. Putting off the green is an unappreciated art. I used to do it quite a bit, which always seemed to surprise the other golfers. In fact, I used to use my putter for certain “trouble shots” out of the rough. Nobody was going to pay me for the results on a consistent basis, but it worked fairly well for me… It didn’t surprise my golf buddies. I missed a lot of greens and was usually putting from at least the fringe. |
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Post by inger on Mar 3, 2022 23:39:10 GMT -5
Putting off the green is an unappreciated art. I used to do it quite a bit, which always seemed to surprise the other golfers. In fact, I used to use my putter for certain “trouble shots” out of the rough. Nobody was going to pay me for the results on a consistent basis, but it worked fairly well for me… It didn’t surprise my golf buddies. I missed a lot of greens and was usually putting from at least the fringe.  It was depressing for me to track greens or fairways hit. I tried not to even think about it… 😂 Leon has hit .09% of each greens and fairways this season, while hitting into 14% of hazards. He has lost 426 balls season, but has found 1,642. Those 1,642 make him feel better about the 426 he’s lost… You know those famous shots made off of portapots? Mine were accidental. Instead of telling each other to hit them well, we told each other to hit ‘em often… |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 3, 2022 23:43:56 GMT -5
It didn’t surprise my golf buddies. I missed a lot of greens and was usually putting from at least the fringe. It was depressing for me to track greens or fairways hit. I tried not to even think about it… 😂 Leon has hit .09% of each greens and fairways this season, while hitting into 14% of hazards. He has lost 426 balls season, but has found 1,642. Those 1,642 make him feel better about the 426 he’s lost… You know those famous shots made off of portapots? Mine were accidental. Instead of telling each other to hit them well, we told each other to hit ‘em often… My father-in-law would be proud of you! It’s his tracking method and favorite part of playing golf. |
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Post by inger on Mar 3, 2022 23:54:33 GMT -5
It was depressing for me to track greens or fairways hit. I tried not to even think about it… 😂 Leon has hit .09% of each greens and fairways this season, while hitting into 14% of hazards. He has lost 426 balls season, but has found 1,642. Those 1,642 make him feel better about the 426 he’s lost… You know those famous shots made off of portapots? Mine were accidental. Instead of telling each other to hit them well, we told each other to hit ‘em often… My father-in-law would be proud of you! It’s his tracking method and favorite part of playing golf. A man after my own heart. There’s something so rewarding about risking reaching down into long, snake infested grass on cottonmouth country and coming up with a nice new Pro VI… I surely lost more “Shark” golf balls than I found. I really liked the logo on them… For a couple years I wore the straw hat… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2022 17:24:51 GMT -5
One of my favorite stories was a teenage Arnold Palmer watching his father being dressed down by a muckity-muck who complained about him letting his son occasionally hit balls on the course. Palmer later bought the golf course. How's that for winning the long game? I've been meaning to come back to this, and sitting here watching Arnie's tournament at Bay Hill (still on my bucket list; I did get to Jack's outside of Columbus once) reminded me. One of the great Arnie stories took place very nearby to me at Merion Country Club outside of Philly (which BTW is where Bobby Jones won the US Amateur to complete his Grand Slam in 1930.) Although the story of Francis Ouimet winning the US Open in 1913 is very well known, the first American to win that tournament was Philly's own John McDermott, who won it in 1911 and again in 1912. Every US Open before that had been won by a Brit or Scot, many of them based in the US by that point. Two months shy of his twentieth birthday, McDermott remains the youngest US Open winner ever (and second youngest of any major winner behind Young Tom Morris who was 17 when we won the Open in 1868.) McDermott went on to finish fourth in the US Open won by Ouimet over Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in 1913. Then in 1914 he suffered what was then called "a nervous breakdown" and spent most of the rest of his life living in state mental hospitals. Although he was occasionally let out to play in a few tournaments in the 1920s, he became increasingly withdrawn and uncommunicative. He did play some golf on a small course at the hospital, and by the 1950s, when he was in his 60s and stabilizing just a bit, he occasionally got out under supervision to play at some local courses. In 1971, when he was nearly 80 years old and largely forgotten, he attended the US Open being held at Merion, where Lee Trevino defeated Jack Nicklaus in a playoff. On the first day of the tournament, which he attended with his devoted sister Gertrude, McDermott, who at that point was still dressed in the style of the 1920s, wandered away from her and into the Pro Shop at Merion. A twenty-something assistant manager at the shop, seeing this decrepit-looking disoriented old man, shushed him out of the store. Through his sister's actions, word of this somehow got back to Arnie. Palmer sought out McDermott, spoke with him golfer to golfer, and personally escorted him back into the Pro Shop. Needless to say, nobody there was going to dispute Arnold Palmer. Not only did Arnie do that, but he made McDermott his personal special guest and made sure he had VIP treatment for the tournament. There wasn't press coverage of it at the time, and it was only because of McDermott's sister that the action later became known. My guess is that Arnie did things like this dozens of times. I know he became a confidant of Walter Hagen when the great Haig was in declining health. He always reverenced those who came before him. John McDermott died a few months after that US Open. It seems like there might be a movie in there somewhere. BTW, Hagen himself visited McDermott when John was in the state mental hospital in the 1920s and played golf with him on the six-hole course there. The Haig was brash and loved the spotlight, but he was at bottom a very kind man who also appreciated those who had played before him. |
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