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Fond of most sports, he plays golf in the gos, plays tennis all the year round (in winter in the $500,000 Tennis House which his father & friends had built near by). When he can get away, he takes his wife skiing, or goes duck-hunting...
...also displayed a series of telegrams which she had received from Pappy as she traveled westward to Reno. They ended with the phrases, "All my love," "Love you," "Love you so darn much," "Love you, darling" and "Love you, apple duck...
...hear strange noises in the night; to see senior officers who had burned themselves playing with fire between tea and dinner; to watch strange weapons (which occasionally worked) being tried out with live ammunition beside the wallflower beds on the lawn; to glimpse the colonel in something between a duck punt and a one-man submarine among the water lilies on the ornamental pond...
White House mail piled higher & higher. The larder bulged with Christmas gifts of plum pudding, wild turkey, venison, duck, pheasant and guinea hen. Tinseled wreaths filled the White House windows with color. Outside, the national Christmas tree towered over the frozen south lawn...
Over the Side, Over the Hill. But every time she put into port, more crewmen had become eligible for a "ruptured duck" lapel button. By last week, 50 officers and 500 men had gone over the side with their bags...