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Paris on Commonwealth Avenue. Ceezee took to school like a cat to water; she could get through it, but would much rather not. Her report cards indicate that as a ten-year-old she was inclined to be noisy and inattentive. She "needs to be very busy or she will gain superficial social superiority," was the comment on one of them, adding that "at heart she is kindly." Ceezee ended her academic career at Fermata, a very social, now defunct girls' school at Aiken, S.C., where she did best at French and Latin, worst at cooking and sewing...
...jazz fan, I believe," grinned touring Bandleader Benny Goodman, as he shook hands with another guest at the U.S. Embassy's Fourth of July reception in Moscow. But Benny dug the wrong cat. Arching his back, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "No, I don't like Goodman music. I like good music." All jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract...
...says, "is like a football game: the quarterback must watch everything-not just the end to whom he's going to pass. If it's rough, you must watch the sea. If it's fluky, you must watch for direction changes, keep an eye on the cat's-paws. You must watch the balance of the boat and trim the sails. The scene is always changing; every puff of wind means something in relation to your opponent...
...York and Texas oilman, Mosbacher started sailing at four, in a cat-rigged, flat-bottomed shell boat. "I used to think it was great fun to turn the boat over," he says, "until everybody stopped helping me right it again." At 17, Mosbacher won the junior championship of Long Island Sound, went on to sweep the International Class championships and just about everything else in sight. In 1958, the first time he ever handled a big, 12-meter America's Cup yacht, Bus took venerable Vim-oldest (by 19 years) boat in the U.S. trials...
...Down a rabbit hole and through a looking glass, Lewis Carroll leads mankind into a world that is both sad and hilarious, wondrously nonsensical, and yet vividly relevant to a century from which most of the solid Victorian absolutes of Truth, Goodness and Progress have faded like the Cheshire Cat. There is no more devastating comment on Marxist myth than the White Queen's "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today." In his wildest escapades, whether hunting the Snark ("They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care:/They pursued it with forks and hope...