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...takes one to know one. Speaking at Briarcliff College in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Journalist Tom Wolfe, 42, chided lawyers on both sides of the Watergate witness table for being impenetrable prose artists. For example, "Samuel Dash, a professor of law, I believe, says, 'Was this his own volitional action?' When translated, he really means 'Did he want to do it?' " As for New Journalism itself, Wolfe wasn't abandoning the Kandy-Kolored circumlocutions that had made him famous, but he claimed he was never going to talk about them again. Or as euphuistic Wolfe...
...Kissinger and Tho would play to the gallery, strolling through the rose garden to chat with what seemed like rather studied conviviality-as if trying to counter stories of deepening difficulties. Kissinger, assuming his secret-swinger posture, emerged from a Paris restaurant with good-looking Jan Gushing, 26, the Briarcliff-grad blonde wife of an American working in a Paris investment firm, whom Kissinger has known for a couple of years...
Bruce W. Robbins of 331A Harvard Street and Malverne, New York; James T. Rosenbaum of Peabody Terrace and Portland, Oregon; Gary L. Rosenthal of Leverett House and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Timothy N. Rush of Gilbert Hall and Briarcliff Manor, New York; Andrew E. Rouse of Winthrop House and Moss Point, Mississippi...
...Manursing Island and New Canaan's Country Club like paddle tennis because, though the courts cost $5,000 apiece, they are cheap to maintain and keep the club open year-round. Individuals build courts too: Philip Morris President Joseph Cullman III, for example, has two courts on his Briarcliff Manor estate, normally entertains a dozen paddle-playing guests each weekend throughout the winter. All told, the American Platform Tennis Association estimates, there are some 500 courts in the U.S., and enthusiasts will go to great lengths to get to one. Last year Caroline Nelson, current A.P.T.A. women...
...large proportion find their girl friends at Bradford, Briarcliff, and other out - of - the - way places that abound in young ladies from good families. Club members often have two girls--one they love and one they lost for -- and whoring is still practiced by members of many clubs. "There's a woman you have a sexual attraction for and another you don't think of that way," Birge said. "But she speaks well, is pretty, and plays the harpsichord...