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...Palm Beach, where he now spends his winters, he lives in a large, cream-colored Spanish villa called "The Towers," which he bought last year for $160,000. Young ordinarily gets up at 6 a.m., goes for a quick dip in the surf, eats a quick breakfast, then quickly gets to work. His workroom is a second-floor bedroom facing the ocean. For a desk he uses two ordinary card tables, pulled together. Scorning ghostwriters, he writes all his own magazine articles, personally turns out copy...
...Calico & Cream Pots. As letters, they make fascinating reading; as a record of Southern life, 1861-65, they are worth a stack of yarns like Gone With the Wind. The title tells only part of the story, for some of the best letters are Susan Black-ford's. Prices were high, she explained: calico, $2.50 a yard; leather boots, $50 a pair. Little Willie, their son, was naughty but "so funny": he sang "Dixie" when he went to bed at night instead of going off to sleep as he should...
Later, little Willie sickened and died: "Yes, my darling, impossible as it seems, our precious little soldier boy has been taken away." Later still, to forestall Yankee marauders, "I took my silver sugar dish, cream pot, bowl, forks and spoons and put them into the legs of a pair of your drawers . . . tying up each leg at the ankle and buckling the band around my waist. They hung under, and were concealed by, my hoops. It did well while I sat still, but as I walked . . . the clanking destroyed all hope of concealment. ... I could not restrain my laughter, which...
...cattle-minded Oklahoma, his bulging ranch-office trophy room, crammed with the winnings of his purebred Hereford show stock, was a sure vote-catcher. So was his snap-brimmed, cream-colored hat -the badge of the western cattleman...
...cream-colored Casino, two Syrian textile magnates risked a fortune at baccarat. Smartly dressed socialites played roulette with 100 peso* chips; their cooks were there, too-risking two peso chips on the wheel's turn. If the season ran true to form, at least one despondent loser would sooner or later plunge into the two-foot-deep canal outside the Casino, be ignominiously fished out of the mud unhurt...