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tion people came into my offce with four guys who looked absolutely dreadful," Wright says. "They were dirty. Their clothes were a mess. I told our guy to take them to the hotel we use and get them white shirts, black ties, trousers, and shoes and get them back here. "They went on air and were wonderful," Wright says. "After the show, they came into my offce and I wrote them a check for fve hundred pounds. John Lennon looked at the check and said, 'We're rich boys.' They wanted to come back the next week, but I told them they could come back in a month. When they came back the next month, they had a thousand people with them. The month after that, there were three thousand people. My secretary was in tears because she couldn't get into the studio. Then Brian Epstein got involved and there were no more fve-hundredpound appearances." "After the show, they came into my ofce and I wrote them a check for fve hundred pounds. John Lennon looked at the check and said, 'We're rich boys.' They wanted to come back the next week, but I told them they could come back in a month." Wright with CBS producer and director Frank Chirkinian at Ballybunion Golf Club in Ireland. OO Wright with former Vice Presdient Dan Quayle, Jim Nantz and Jerry Pate at Quayle's residence. Tempus-Magazine.com . Summer 2013 A So, does the legend of Ben Wright include the launching of Beatlemania? "No!" he says, laughing heartily. "But I will take credit for their dress when they performed. They always wore white shirts, black ties, trousers, and shoes. That was me." C H A N C E E N C OU N TE R S Wright playing in the BMW Charity Pro-Am in South Carolina. A tournament round played in a driving rain/snow storm was the next turn of events that opened another extremely successful avenue for Wright. "Why they never stopped play, I'll never know, but we had to play until the absolute bitter end," he says. "We were soaked and we agreed to meet in the bar after we changed to try to ward off the evil pneumonia. We hit it pretty good. I thought I'd never be warm again, but after the imaginary assistance of the spirits, I began to warm up again." And as so often happens in these sessions, tongues loosen and things are said. Most times, these words don't enhance one's situation, either professionally or personally. Then again, sometimes you get lucky. "I had been telling tales about covering golf," Wright says. "One of the guys I'd been playing with asked me why I didn't write a golf column for the Fi-