For 28 years, Erwin S. Barrie has been not only director of Manhattan's big Grand Central Art Galleries but an amateur painter as well. Last week, for the first time, he got around to hanging some of his own paintings on the walls. Onetime Amateur Golf Champion Willie Turnesa turned up at the opening; so did dozens of other tweedy sportsmen who circled the room crowing, "I remember this one!" and "I made that one in three." Amateur Barrie, who called his canvases Famous Golf Holes I Have Played, couldn't have been more pleased...
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