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Tuesday Morning, which sells bargain brand-name gifts and housewares, only opens four times a year. This year my mother and I went on the third day of the winter sale to get a set of golf clubs as a present for my father. It was the first day that the golf clubs would be offered for sale, along with down comforters...
When the doors opened, the crowd jostled and pushed through the doors. We snagged the last of the golf clubs. All the choice merchandise was gone in the first five minutes...
Though Simpson spent some of the time playing golf as the jury deliberated, waiting for the verdict proved to be excruciating for most of the principals. Fred Goldman spent the first Thursday afternoon of deliberations just driving alone around Los Angeles. Denise Brown was at her parents' house in Orange County, trying to comfort her mother Juditha. Juditha was worried about Denise, convinced that Simpson would somehow hurt her. The Browns were also concerned about logistics: How would they get into the courthouse when the verdict came down without going through the media-and-heckler gauntlet? They sent an emissary...
...awarding custody of Sydney and Justin Simpson to their father. Only Simpson seemed to have a strategy for coping with the tension. Fielding media requests for postverdict interviews, he reiterated that he needed money and would consider speaking only for cash. Beyond that, friends said, he was busy playing golf...
...dining terrace of the $600 million Phoenician resort hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Charles H. Keating Jr., his head held high, his gangly 6 ft. 5 in. frame clad in rolled-up blue jeans and a Windbreaker, strides in, startling a middle-aged couple at lunch. The man, still in golf togs, drops a steak knife and says, "Edith, I can't believe he's out of prison; it's the guy who built this hotel...