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...Beverly Hills and a cream-colored Rolls-Royce. But best of all he likes his office. For there, in an upstairs crow's nest overlooking a strategically trained 15-ft. mirror below, Jack Hanson is master of all he surveys, king of the castle, lord of the manor, and the busiest peeper since...
...Preakness cups, four Jockey Club Gold Cups, 76 Julep Cups representing feature race winners at Keeneland. Mrs. Markey could also auction off some land. Calumet's 846 acres of rolling Kentucky bluegrass are worth some $3,500,000-and that's not even counting the 18-room manor house, 36 outbuildings and 23 miles of white oak fences. The estate was inherited from his family by Mrs. Markey's first husband, Chicago Tycoon Warren Wright, in 1931, three years after he had sold his controlling interest in Calumet Baking Powder Co. for $29.2 million. He insisted, nonetheless...
...Nymph & Satyr. To the casual eye, this dog walker, churchgoer and drinker of neighborly gins could be just another exurbanite worried about taxes and with strong views on zoning. But this is an obsessed man. Re-created in his novels and stories as Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor, the suburban region is subjected to terrible metamorphosis. It is not Sing Sing Prison straddling the New York Central tracks by the Hudson shore that is the worst destination of the inhabitants, but a netherworld of damnation. In Metamorphoses, one neighbor has suffered a magical transformation into Actaeon, torn...
...Proxmire Manor seems to 'be located in northern Westchester. (Novelist Cheever himself was born in Quincy, Mass., but now lives in Ossining, N.Y., in a stone-gabled 18th century house with wife, three children, two Labradors, two Roman doves, and two cars.) With no irony whatever, Proxmire Manor is presented as the kind of a place where people could, if they were good, live happily ever afterward, but foolishly, because they are wicked, choose...
...proletarian Parthenia down by the railroad tracks, from which emerge teen-age toughs, rapacious plumbers and reefer-smoking baby sitters. It may be attacked from within by moral failure. Felicity is threatened by the second wife, the third mortgage, the fourth child, or the fifth martini. In Proxmire Manor, as in Eden itself, the penalty for sin is banishment-but only to the next town. The angel at the gates may be a suburban bank manager or may appear, as in The Wapshot Scandal, in terrible female form as a community leader who has graduated from love into good works...