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...more effort into winning the Viet Nam war more quickly ("I'm not as scared of China as some people are"), calls for more steps to stop inflation. Moreover, she seems able to throw a continuous barrage of barbs at Claiborne Pell, whom she calls a "curlyheaded croquet player from Newport." Referring to Pell's good looks, she says: "I concede that if the election were on the basis of looks, I would lose. My campaign managers wanted me to do something with my hair, lose 20 lbs. and put some sex appeal into the campaign...
...borrow a cricket term, it was a very sticky wicket. There was the visiting Westhampton (L.I.) Mallet Club, unrivaled at home, ignominiously defeated eight straight times by London's Hurlingham Croquet Club. "Do you need a coach?" inquired the British captain. "We need a coach-and-four," groaned a U.S. player. But the colonials have just begun to fight. Back home, plans were already afoot to form a kind of U.S. Olympic team of malleteers, including all the croquet greats: Composer Richard Rodgers, Actors David Wayne and Gig Young, and as spiritual leader, a man described as "a living...
...couples clustered at 8 p.m. or so to nudge croquet balls on the House lawn. As more people showed the gateman their invitations or spoke the password, "swordfish," the air became thick with smoke from Danish tobacco...
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...Ireland's Malahide Castle, at intervals between 1925 and 1941, Boswell's descendants discovered a vast mass of manuscript stacked in a hideous old ebony cabinet, in the moldy loft of a barn, in an ancient croquet box. It was the literary find of the century: thousands of Boswell's letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed...