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...striven to appear youthful, athletic and energetic-and succeeded all too well. Many Frenchmen regard Chaban, who was a national tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still has a slight scent of scandal about him. He was dismissed by Pompidou in 1972 partly because it was found he had used loopholes to avoid paying taxes...
Good Listener. Hartman acknowledges that his blindness may put him at a disadvantage in diagnosing certain physical ills. But he plans to practice psychiatry and believes that his handicap may be of some help. Blindness has forced him to rely on his ears and has made him a good listener. In medicine, he says, "there are a lot of people who feel that you can be more effective by listening...
...devoted to Bip, Marceau's alter ego and trademark for the past 25 years. In a worn out high silk hat topped by a flower, his eyes and arched eyebrows darkened, his mouth a red gash, Bip is "the silent witness of the lives of men, struggling against one handicap or another, with joys and sorrows as their daily companions." Born out of the tradition of the nineteenth century which created Pierrot during the French Revolution, Bip is the nostalgic dreamer, arousing pity and empathy as he is confronted by each successive disaster, yet spurred on again and again...
Three weeks ago, a few horses had emerged as possibilities. Protagonist, winner of the Experimental Free Handicap, and Judger, the spectacular winner of the Florida Derby, were beginning to look like championship material. Protagonist proceeded to run fourth in the Bay Shore Handicap at Aqueduct that weekend, while Judger finished a tired third in the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah...
...thing to be said for golf. It gave the Oldest Member (alias P.G. Wodehouse, 92 and still spinning yarns on the clubhouse terrace) an excuse to look up from his lemonade and variously celebrate valor at the ninth-hole water hazard and the triumph of love over a fifteen handicap. These 31 stories, a Masters tournament of golfing tales, stretch gloriously from The Clicking of Cuthbert (1916) to Sleepy Time (1968) and pass such milestones as The Heart of a Goof and The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh...