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...Organized Fun Day at the Essex County Club Yesterday...
...Tuesday the class will make the annual trek to Essex County Club for the yearly 25th reunion athletic contests and encounter with innumerable lobsters. Included on the varied program will be the traditional softball game between fathers and senior sons...
Novelist Howe's book is most satisfying when it careens through the sacred precincts of Holy Old Boston. She does a brilliant autopsy on Maggie's Bradfield in-laws, with their clapboard Essex County cottages named after characters in Gilbert and Sullivan and their stupefying Sunday evenings of jolly songs, recitations and parlor games. As her first husband explains: "The whole point of a family party is that you don't have to talk. It would ruin it if you had to be thinking of things to say." But once Maggie is launched into the world beyond...
...onto the canted flight deck. The plane was Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader. The new jet had already landed successfully on the supercarrier Forrestal's big 1,036-ft. deck; now it proved that it could also nest on the standard 876-ft. deck length of Essex-Oriskany-class carriers. Exulted one airman: "This baby takes us out of the third row and puts us right up front...
...orange mammoths deposited their cargo at the Essex County Club shortly after 10 a.m., and the Class straggled for the various available activities. Sitting and talking took first preference, although a few stalwarts managed to find their way onto the 12 tennis courts. Still others did battle 'mid the roughs and sandtraps of the club's golf course...