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No Myth Dies Harder, And None Is More Regularly Debunked By The Facts, Than The One About International Sports Contributing To International Friendship.

Every Sport Pretends To A Literature, But People Don't Believe It Of Any Other Sport But Their Own.

I Hasten To Say To Snobs From The Surrey Pine-and-sand Country That No Invention Since The Corn Plaster Or The Electric Toothbrush Has Brought Greater Balm To The Extremities Of The Senior Golfer Than The Golfmobile, A Word That Will Have To Do For Want Of A Better.

The Scots Say That Nature Itself Dictated That Golf Should Be Played By The Seashore. Rather, The Scots Saw In The Eroded Sea Coasts A Cheap Battleground On Which They Could Whip Their Fellow Men In A Game Based On The Calvinist Doctrine That Man Is Meant To Suffer Here Below And Never More Than When He Goes Out To Enjoy Himself.

The Best Thing About Eisenhower's Presidency Was His Jeffersonian Conviction That There Should Be As Little Government And As Much Golf As Possible.