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...eldest son, S. Robson Walton, 42, who is at present one of the company's vice chairmen. But Mr. Sam shows no signs of giving up his trademark store visits. For some time to come, Wal-Mart employees will have to be on the lookout for the gray-haired gentleman who loves to exclaim, "Give...
...gambler who bets as high as his name. As a result of a wager, this disparate pair finds itself flying to Cuba. Of course, they end up falling in love, and all sorts of plot tangles and twists follow. Despite his reputation, Sky turns out to be more a gentleman than a gambler, and he stakes his fortune to save Sarah's mission...
Nicolson fils and pere, driving in separate cars across the U.S. in 1986, are not exactly typical tourists. Nigel is a historian, gentleman politician and professional amateur whose most celebrated book, Portrait of a Marriage, describes the unlikely partnership of his homosexual parents Vita Sackville- West and Harold Nicolson. Adam is a naturalist ready to take over the family business of belles lettres. On their American tours, Adam, 29, relentlessly covers the West, stopping in on rallies in Berkeley, hanging out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas and tramping through the rain forests of Washington. Meanwhile...
WALKER PERCY is arguably the greatest living Southern novelist. His canon is as solid as any contemporary American's, north or south of the Mason-Dixon. The Moviegoer, Percy's first and best novel, received the National Book Award in 1962 and the works that followed--The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, and The Second Coming--established a critical and commercial cult following that was, and is, highly deserved...
...make-over haven in Freeport. (By the way, Mom, how's the weather back home?) "Let's have dinner," said Remar when we spoke on the phone. "But how about a bike ride first?" I blanched but dutifully headed over to his modest three- bedroom house. Initial impression: Georgia gentleman, soft-spoken, slight drawl, impeccable manners -- he lowered the bike seat for me. Yes, yes, about the body. Well, I have to say I was impressed. In his "before" pictures he resembled a bloated puffer fish. At 6 ft. 1 in., he tipped the scale...