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...rest of the country slid into the Depression, Marjorie prospered as the Post hostess with the mostest. Her estates became the playground for the surviving American moneyed, from the Phippses and Vanderbilts to the Kennedys and Dodges. Winters were spent at Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room, $7,000,000 residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Decorated with Italian stone, tiles made in 15th century Spain, and tapestries from the palace of the Venetian Doge, the crescent-shaped, turreted mansion and its estate boasted a nine-hole golf course, 10,000 potted plants, and well placed sand that enabled the family...
Born in Akron, Dean was raised with his sister Anne in several Midwestern cities, as their father rose through the executive ranks of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Later the elder Dean settled in Greenville, Pa., where he became vice president of a company that manufactures playground equipment. At Staunton, young John studied self-hypnotism to improve his concentration and roomed with Barry Goldwater Jr., who now is his neighbor in Alexandria, Va. Dean graduated with a low B average and got by at Colgate with gentlemanly C's before transferring to Ohio's College of Wooster...
...ridiculous. In a wicked, fence-straddling about-face, Bertolucci allows Paul to act obnoxious even while he visually supports Paul's view of things. Nothing holds any people in the film together except for the pursuit of private obsessions, and Bertolucci's Paris is nothing but a lush bourgeois playground. There's no way that a sensitive individual can survive unbruised and unbowed in such an environment, but there's no indication that Paul had any strength to his sensitivity even before he hit Paris, and when he talks of facing death (meaning the suicide of his wife) the self...
...team in Little League called "Klein's Stationery Owls" when, with the bases loaded, I came in from the bullpen (actually I had been chasing this cute nine-year old girl around the playground) and proceeded to walk in five straight runs. I probably should have given up the sport right then, but I persisted until the day in JV ball at prep school when, with the varsity coaches watching, I hit into a triple play to end the season, and my career...
...unreal life of the croquet tournament and the formal ball goes on today just as though nothing much had changed, except for the invention of air conditioning, since Henry Flagler first laid a railroad span across Lake Worth in 1894 and opened up an idyllic new playground to his friends. From what is probably the world's richest island, now at the height of the two-month ritual known simply as The Season, TIME'S Peter Range reports...