Word: backgammoner
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...Backgammon & Rye. Daily, Dulles got up at 6:30 a.m., bathed, shaved, read the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post (the New York Times and Herald Tribune were brought in later), began to maneuver through an Ellery Queen. Breakfast was at 8 o'clock on the patio, with Dulles decked out in sports shirt, slacks and the hat. At 9:30 Army Captain Edward J. Kamin, an internal medicine specialist who had flown down in the presidential Columbine with Dulles and wife Janet from Washington, gave his patient a checkup. At 10:30 Dulles' capable personal assistant Joseph...
...thirty was the cocktail hour for the Dulleses, "Jerry" Greene and Dr. Kamin-one shot of Old Overholt rye with a splash of water for Dulles, for Mrs. Dulles a martini. In the evenings the Dulleses dined alone (typical menu: consommé, chipped beef on toast, cake), afterward played backgammon. Since 1932, Janet and Foster have kept a notebook record of their backgammon scores. Last week Janet Dulles fell even farther behind...
...first floor is the main entrance hall with the beautiful wide staircase leading to the upper floors (there are elevators, too). Beyond it is the bar, always crowded around the meal hours; the Grill Room, where many men gather to read, smoke, or play dominoes, chess, and backgammon; the main dining hall; and the enormous Harvard Hall, ninety feet long, and three stories high...
...evening last week the men of the Jordan border town of Kalkilya sat in cafes sipping coffee and playing backgammon. From Israel 400 yards to the west came the clatter of heavy vehicles and the flicker of headlights. A column of trucks lurched past the loungers. "Don't worry," an officer called out. "You won't get hurt. We're after the army." A moment later the street shook as the Israelis opened their attack on the big police fort on the other side of town. It was another Israeli reprisal raid, the fourth in a month...
...constant companion (& friend in old age)-charms of music & female chitchat . . . Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books . . ." In 1839 he married firm, kindly Emma Wedgwood: "the perfect nurse had married the perfect patient." Among their many common bonds was backgammon. Darwin tabulated the results of all their games, so that towards the end of his life he was able to write to a friend: "She, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games, whilst I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2,795 games...