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...epiphanies, personal growth, mid-life crises or deathbed conversions. Millions of years of Darwinian evolution have led to who I am, in addition to everything my parents did to mold me--the Dave Brubeck albums, the fondue, the deification of Danny Kaye, car-pooling me every Wednesday to chemin de fer lessons. And I would consider it an act of ingratitude and betrayal to become an entirely different person. So I try to deal with setbacks and crises in my life the way I always have--by locking myself in my room, setting small fires and blasting music into...
...playing the horses. At 16, he invested (pounds)10 in a three-horse parlay and collected (pounds)8,000. He decided that Eton was no longer worthy of his time. He bought himself a car and headed for Oxford, where although not enrolled as a student, he learned about chemin de fer and girls. When the subject of a career eventually came up, Jimmy served a brief stint in the Royal Artillery. He later went to Paris and joined his older brother Teddy in a tiny pharmaceutical business...
...electric at this posh London casino. A beautiful woman is losing big at chemin de fer. How can the stranger across the table keep drawing better cards out of the shoe? Desperately, she borrows more to cover her bets, and the stranger says, "I admire your courage, Miss...
...none of this is news, it has rarely been so methodically worked over. Toland's main intent is to evoke the sweep of battle from the Chemin des Dames to the Marne, from Belleau Wood to the Argonne. He sometimes wrings from familiar historic horrors memorable touches of contrary humanity. What was it like to listen to 8,500 guns, a sound that no human ear had ever heard before? For Winston Churchill, who visited France to see the war firsthand, the crescendo rose "exactly as a pianist runs his hands across the keyboard from treble to bass...
...Paley, 77, a particularly elusive subject, but Clarke discovered the chairman of CBS to be gracious and cooperative. Their 1½-hour meeting took place in Paley's office, a "wonderfully opulent but understated room," according to the TIME visitor, with paintings by Picasso and Rouault and a chemin defer table from Paris now used as a desk and, for this occasion, a tape recorder. "I asked Paley if he minded if I used my tape recorder," says Clarke. " 'No,' he replied, 'as long as you don't mind if I use mine.' Later...