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...Island and New Canaan's Country Club like paddle tennis because, though the courts cost $5,000 apiece, they are cheap to maintain and keep the club open year-round. Individuals build courts too: Philip Morris President Joseph Cullman III, for example, has two courts on his Briarcliff Manor estate, normally entertains a dozen paddle-playing guests each weekend throughout the winter. All told, the American Platform Tennis Association estimates, there are some 500 courts in the U.S., and enthusiasts will go to great lengths to get to one. Last year Caroline Nelson, current A.P.T.A. women's-doubles...
...Corner. Pergamon is nominally London-based, but Maxwell runs his flourishing empire ($2.3 million profit on $14 million worth of sales last year) from his 19th century manor house near Oxford, which serves as the office for 400 of his 2,500 staffers. Handsome if beefy (6 ft., 230 lbs.), Maxwell lives in "one small corner" of Headington Hill Hall with his French-born wife and eight children, devotes mornings to his business, afternoons and evenings to Parliament, to which he was elected as a Labor M.P. two years ago. Characteris tically, Maxwell was the first member to make...
...also urged moderation on Vietnam to the tie-and-jacketed (and sweater-and-skirted) audience that had come from such points as Brandeis, B.U., Pine Manor, M.I.T. and Wheelock for the Harvard Young Republican Club rally...
...Giovanni, and the guile of a Mephistopheles. For Rudolf Bing, it's all in a day's work. At 64, he is the undisputed lord of the manor, and he looks it. Though in physique (6 ft., 139 Ibs.) he resembles a patrician heron stuffed into herringbone, there is an impeccably correct bearing about him that says "Beware: regal and remote." His face and grey-fringed dome, all right-angle turns, are a study in parchment over steel. A Vienna-born English subject, he could easily pass as the British ambassador to Paris-a job that he wouldn...
...lord of the manor, an unfeeling fellow, imposes a rent increase on his poor tenant farmer. In his turn, the farmer cuts his field hand's wages to nearly nothing. In the next move, the destitute worker is sent off to debtors' prison...