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...distaff pro golf is rugged on the course, it is not much fun off the course either. There is no time for home or family, no real opportunity for the single girls to find male companionship. Spare moments see the shared motel rooms fringed with drying laundry and the corner table swept clear for a pale respite of gin rummy. Sometimes movies will help kill the evening if local enthusiasts do not come through with a cocktail party-but always for the ladies, the 19th hole is the toughest...
Participants include boys from private schools near Boston whose homes are too far apart for ordinary companionship. according to Stone. Counsellors in the program which Stone says is "not a baby-sitting or a case study program" will be chosen on the basis of their interest, financial need, and experience...
Despite Harvard's reputation for apathy and indifference, political clubs are far more active here than at the average college. This activity may well be due to a combination of factors: lack of feminine companionship, a feeling of isolation, compensation for being frustrated in the academic and social ends of college life, and the intensely ambitious young men Harvard seems to attract. Undergraduates, many of whom have been accustomed to a large amount of ego-gratification before entrance, often find themselves made more ambitious by the frustrations of this university. This need for appreciation and power very often take...
...home in Palm Beach, Bob Sweeny began spending more time on golf, less around the house. Despite the birth of two daughters and the gay social life, Society Matron Joanne soon felt "as if I had been missing out on life." She agonized over her diet, sought new companionship on the gaudier fringes of the Palm Beach sporting set. "Remember," Sweeney once explained, "she is young, very young." But in 1953, he won an uncontested divorce-and custody of the children-after naming International Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa as Joanne's lover...
...Boston had picked up in Bermuda soon became a mass of welts and bruises. "I found it difficult to shoot Mudie," said Boston, "but it was the most humane thing to do. He sort of yelped and turned over." Alone again, Boston longed for any sort of companionship, wrote in his log: "Noticed a very small fish swimming near the rudder. I hope that he stays there. It will be nicer to have company...