Dennis McKee
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Was there ever a year in golf like 1960? It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the game collided. Television, still a new medium, provided a fresh window to this fascinating show and enabled this “rich man's sport” to win over millions of new fans. Here was Arnold Palmer, the working man's hero, “sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying,”...
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This collection is the fruit of Hillinger's nearly forty-six years of a dream job spent traveling the United States as a feature writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. The result was 6,000 human and general interest stories. He traveled, came home to write, and hit the road again. In Charles Hillinger's America, you will learn about Thomas Edison's first motion picture studio, built in New Jersey; about the only surviving wooden whaling ship,...