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White himself learned to fly and skin-dive, was a proficient cameraman, hunter, horseman, sailor, archer, painter, naturalist, fisherman, falconer. From a mind as chockablock as Merlyn's cottage-or his own-he could unlimber the rules of jousting, describe the nervous systems of fish, discourse on medieval cocktails (one favorite was called Father Whoresonne). He was the first scholar to translate a medieval Latin bestiary into English; he produced a minor classic on falconry (The Goshawk), wrote moving poetry...
...with no visible means of support. Then August rolls around, and Saratoga miraculously comes alive. Bottles of Bellinger go on ice, stables are swept out, hotel prices skyrocket, and bunting drips like Spanish moss from Broadway's stately elms. In August, for 24 days, Saratoga is the race horseman's Brigadoon...
...race track do the old traditions survive. Gentlemen must still wear coats in the clubhouse; horses are still saddled and mounted graciously on the cool grass under the elms behind the peak-roofed grandstand. The annual August yearling auction is still the No. 1 event on a true horseman's social and business calendar; prices on unraced thoroughbreds run as high as $87,000. And Saratoga is still a "graveyard of favorites." It was there, in the 1930 Travers Stakes, that Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot, galloped through the mud to beat Whichone and the Triple Crown winner...
...President pinch-hit), and daily chased the hounds across the misty Virginia fields near Upperville, where the Kennedys are building a ranch house costing approximately $90,000. During one three-hour hunt, the First Lady chivalrously dismounted to open a gate for her fellow riders. Said one weary young horseman: "It was nice of her to open that gate, but I sure did feel funny going through...
During that time, each of the directors is forced to reveal to President Julian Armstone (Joseph Cotten) that he has a motive for being the raider's well-paid Trojan horseman. These revelations are not so much jolting glimpses of human frailty as they are dismaying exposures of gimcrack theatrical carpentry. The motive of the raider (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) is typically yawn-provoking. As a youngster he waited on table for "polite boys" in button-down collars, and has venomously turned the tables ever since. Hero Cotten is a kind of airborne Hamlet who has always eluded...