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...miles long and up to six miles wide. St. Thomas offers the bustle of Charlotte Amalie, the islands' capital city, as well as ancient forts and quaint Danish architecture. St. Croix, quieter and less populated, boasts a rain forest and an arid, cactus-studded bluff, wildlife (deer, quail), a profusion of tropical fruit from papaya to pineapples, a golf course, and old plantations with such calypso names as "Slob," "Humbug" and "Jealousy." St. John remains mostly unsettled, its rugged terrain a protected national park; but for the wealthy it has the Rockefellers' exclusive resort at Cancel Bay, where...
Instant Delphi. He masked up for Truman Capote's ball, has escorted Jacqueline Kennedy to the movies, helped Norman Mailer celebrate the opening of his play, The Deer Park. "Any party with Arthur Schlesinger and me in it," proclaims perpetual Starlet Monique Van Vooren, "can't be a failure." True enough and, like the Bell Telephone Hour, Schlesinger now hits all notes from classical to pop-with not a note dropped or a cadenza slighted along...
...call it the United States. And we're bound together by our Constitution and our language. Yet, in many ways, we're a group of separate kingdoms. Our land grows palm trees and pine, redwoods and beach plum, vanishing Key deer and whooping cranes. Our people say 'you all' and 'youse'; catch shrimp and sell stocks; live in lean-tos, skyscrapers and stucco bungalows. There's never been such a fiercely diverse land...
...most he personally tested on the trails. In a spare, hardsell style that would be instructive to many an advertising copywriter, the catalogue once plugged a Combination Compass, Match Case and Whistle by noting that "the Whistle is loud enough to be heard a long distance." Bean's Deer Toter, a stretcher ingeniously rigged to a bicycle wheel, was described as a contrivance on which "your deer looks so much better than when dragged over the ground." The catalogue also promoted Bean's two highly successful books. One of them, Hunting, Fishing and Camping, a slender, lore-packed...
...reading fiction or fact. It was so prejudiced that even before the Kennedy suit, Manchester had been persuaded by his publisher and Kennedy advisers to eliminate much of the offending material, including the opening chapter which, reportedly, had L.BJ. virtually forcing the late President to go hunting, kill a deer and have it mounted for his office...