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...ordered a Mercedes limousine in London for $30,000, a theoretical saving of $15,000. But Mr. X was not primarily interested in bargains. He ordered the limousine cut in half and stretched 4 ft., repainted in Porsche metallic blue and retrimmed in Connolly English magnolia leather throughout. He had a bar, television and telephone installed. The total price came to $92,000, in contrast to a U.S. price of God knows what. Normally he would have paid $850 for shipment to Los Angeles, but he wanted his toy in a hurry, so he had it air-freighted...
Thousands of happy games followed. Occasionally, Roach would be held to a draw, but he was never beaten. Now and again he would bring out eight or nine more checkerboards and play all his opponents at once, never losing. Whole tour buses, making the Southern azalea-magnolia-plantation circuit, were made to wait while their drivers lost to Double-Trouble Roach. And then, early last fall, the Roach gas station and fruit stand had the rug pulled out from under them--by the highway department, of all things...
During her husband's term in the White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...
...wedding of the time, the bridegroom rhapsodized: "It is therefore our glorious and divine purpose to fly mountains, to sow petalscent. . . to glorify glory, to love with love." His bride answered: "We hereby commit ourselves to a serenity more flamboyant and more foolish than a petalfall of Magnolia." And the bridegroom came back thus: "This is the purest double helix of our us-ness...
...picturesque Ponce de Leon Park, which seated 14,000, and where 12,000 patrons were regularly counted, there was a magnolia tree in center field. It was slightly out of range for everyone who ever hit there except Eddie Mathews, who had the only inside-the-tree home run. Major league teams barnstorming north from the spring camps always stopped off to play the Crackers. In 1947 Jackie Robinson first set foot out of Florida there, and 27,000 people overflowed the park. The Ku Klux Klan promised that someone would be shot. Nobody...