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...flapping seemed to relax me," says Kidd. "I'm certainly not going to change now. After all, I do my running with my legs." Wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 135 Ibs.) Bruce Kidd thrives on a training regimen that would make most U.S. distance men turn to croquet. Son of the director of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, Kidd runs up to 15 miles a day in training. "My parents are reasonably enthusiastic about what I'm doing," says Kidd...
...prepared juicy sacrifices on the suburban Buddhas -the charcoal grills. Mint-flavored iced tea or tart martinis chilled thirsty throats, and from across hedgerows and fences came the cries of exultant youngsters and the yells and laughter of men and women engaged in a rough-and-tumble game of croquet or volleyball. (In Springfield Township, near Philadelphia, nine couples recently pounded through a rousing volleyball match; five of the women were pregnant, but no emergency deliveries were made that...
...Timer Graham was looking for small-time football. "I want to win as much as anyone," he said. "I even want to beat my wife at croquet. But football should be fun-even for the coach. It may sound corny, but I believe that line about 'it doesn't matter who wins or loses-it's how you play the game...
...Rowing & Croquet. The outsized history prof was headed for Smith College before he was born; according to family legend his pediatrician mother (class of '95) entered him antenatally. Among his qualifications for running the school: he is the father of three daughters (the eldest is a Bryn Mawr freshman). Among Yalemen, there seems some reason to believe that Mendenhall will modify his wardrobe before journeying to Smith next July, perhaps holding a ceremonial bonfire for the professorial rags on Berkeley lawn. At any rate, publicity pictures passed out by the women's college show him in a neat...
...three generations of his family (two children, four grandchildren) and presided grandly at some of the wittiest dinner parties in the nation. No foreign dignitary could say he had been a success in the U.S. until he had been to Sands Point to play a round of big-league croquet against such guests as Averell Harriman, the Marx brothers, William Randolph Hearst Jr. or Swope's late elder brother Gerard, onetime president and board chairman of General Electric. On the croquet court Swope was insufferable: "Now you put your little foot on your ball and drive the other buckety...