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Roger Greenspun (December 16, 1929 – June 18, 2017) was an American journalist and film critic, best known for his work with The New York Times in which he reviewed near 400 films, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and for Penthouse for which he was the film critic throughout much of the late 1970s and 1980s.
John Leland (born 1959) is an author and has been a journalist for The New York Times since 2000. [1] [2] [3] He began covering retirement and religion in January 2004. During 1994, Leland was editor-in-chief of Details magazine. [2] [4] [5] He was also a senior editor at Newsweek, an editor and columnist at Spin magazine, and a reviewer for ...
American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge (1834–1837) The American Mercury (1924–1981) The American Museum (1787–1792) American Review (1967–1977) The American Review (1933–1937) The American Review: A Whig Journal (1845–1849) American Thunder (2004) The American Weekly (1896–1966) Amerika (1944–1994) Amiga World ...
His The Story of American Golf is considered a seminal work on the subject. The Complete Golfer, by Herbert Warren Wind, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1954. Game, Set, and Match: the Tennis Boom of the 1960s and 70s, by Herbert Warren Wind, New York, E.P. Dutton, 1979, ISBN 0-525-11140-9. The Gilded Age of Sport
Francis DeSales Ouimet (/ w iː ˈ m ɛ t /) (May 8, 1893 – September 2, 1967) was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the "father of amateur golf" in the United States. He won the U.S. Open in 1913 and was the first non-Briton elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews .
The Metropolitan PGA Championship is a golf tournament that is the section championship of the Metropolitan section of the PGA of America. It has been played annually since 1926 at a variety of courses around the New York City metropolitan area. It was considered a PGA Tour event in the 1920s and 1930s.
Around 1887, he introduced and played the "Royal Scottish Game" on an improvised course near his home and was the leader of the Apple Tree Gang. [4]On November 14, 1888, at a dinner at his house, [5] he founded and, served as the first president of Saint Andrew's Golf Club located in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. [6]
Tom Bendelow (1868–1936), nicknamed "The Johnny Appleseed of American Golf" and "The Dean of American Golf", [1] was a Scottish American golf course architect during the first half of the twentieth century. He is credited with having designed some 600 courses in a 35-year span. [2]