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...freshman, who asked but to be identified, said to had filched a fork and spoon for his room. "I am paying $15,000 to come here." he said, adding. "I think I'm entitled to a spoon for my coffee...
Dawkins insists that "in no way was I disillusioned with the Army." The decision to resign was a "fork in the road," he says, that turned into "a very busy intersection" with many job offers. Investment banking had a special allure, one that Dawkins believes offers an opportunity to develop a variety of expert skills. His friends predict that he will establish the obligatory Wall Street base and then go into politics. He leans to the Republican side, though he maintains close contact with the Kennedy clan. Says Dawkins: "I am very serious about doing something with my life...
...when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles, or Pratt's, if you must). They dread the fatal slip, the moment when they might, for example, eat asparagus with knife and fork: Use your fingers, idiot...
...calendar. Each commemorates a day immutable as spring: the rise of larvae, or nymphs, from the bottom of certain streams and their emergence as May flies on the surface. But there is no date more important than the hatch of the fabled green drake on Henry's Fork. When the first of the insects is sighted on the Snake River, Henry's Fork and the whole town of Last Chance, as well as all the motels, gas stations, restaurants and tackleshops in between, come alive with their own hatch: trout fishermen...
...perhaps to the dining room of the Chalet Restaurant, and there, seated against the wall in a booth upholstered in red vinyl, they might find Bing Lempke. And whether they are plumbers from Cleveland or industrialists from Los Angeles, they may ask Lempke, who has fished Henry's Fork for a half-century, a litany of questions that run like this...