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Egozi, now 38, lives in a $200,000 house fronting on Skylake outside of Miami and often spends weekends with his wife and three children horseback riding around his 25-acre ranch in Fort Lauderdale. He broods about his early days in the U.S., when to be a Cuban "was a very degrading thing," and finds irony in the fact that he is now welcome anywhere. "It doesn't matter what you are if you have money," he says. Egozi should know. He reckons his personal wealth at about...
Frobisher's last letter contained this sentence: "It was tyme for us to goa through with it." For Morison this sums up the code of the best mariners. It is his code too. At 83, Morison still sails. He rides horseback, too, and occasionally shows up at his office in Harvard's Widener Memorial Library in his riding britches, looking more like a pukka-sahib colonel than a professor or an admiral. At present he is working on a biography of Samuel de Champlain as well as a sequel to his present volume. When his own time comes...
...advanced standing sophomore majoring in Social Studies. Bauer says there's not much for a horseback rider to do during the school year, except play a little polo for Harvard and go on an occasional fox hunt. "In the summer season. I travel to contests in a 200 to 300 mile radius, but in the fall and winter I just don't have the time." he said...
Most important is daughter Patsy, the one who attempts to lick the system by disregarding its failings, by finding four good things for every bad. She loves interior decorating, and is blithely unconscious that her metallic designs are inherited from her world. She loves skiing and swimming and horseback-riding, while ignoring the gas stations and telephone wires and Negro gardeners that surround her at the Concord...
...Chanel (never called anything but Coco for "Little Pet") was orphaned at six and raised in the desolate province of Auvergne by two aunts. From them, she learned that little girls should sew, sit up straight and speak politely; for sewing, a skill that forever eluded her. Coco substituted horseback riding. From Etienne Balsan, a millionaire cavalry officer who brought her to Paris at 16, Coco acquired the habits and tastes of the wealthy. She liked them-all but the ladies' predilection for ostrich-boa-draped hats. To provide an alternative, she opened a millinery boutique in Deauville...