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Although at its most watchable the game is played in a Gatsbyesque setting in the wealthy enclaves of Palm Beach, Newport and the Hamptons, some blue collar is beginning to poke through the white. Many of the sport's ranked players trained on public courts; most of them work for a living and pay their own way to competitions around the world. At the vineyards' tournament, Dublin's Williams, a musician and graphics designer, was defeated by Debbie Cornelius, a secretary from England who had played a dairy farmer and an engineer. Players in Central Park included a bar owner...
...JAZZ FESTIVAL. The son of the famed Newport Festival returns to New York City with more than 100 jazz greats and future greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck and Wynton Marsalis. Through June...
Another gold coast lies 3,000 miles away, in Orange County, Calif. Joseph Wambaugh makes it the backdrop for The Golden Orange (Morrow; 317 pages; $19.95), his tale of high rollers on the sunstruck expanses of Newport Beach. Former policeman Winnie Farlowe pilots a ferry and works at his favorite hobby, drinking. One day he slams his boat into a yacht. The accident introduces him to a much divorced lady with money, looks and a conniving mind. Before Winnie's head clears, he is being set up for a scam that involves betrayal and homicide. In The Blue Knight...
...McDonald's. He is learning the "langwich," he tells Danny. The sweet, agoraphobic Michael, Lauren's brother, a caretaker for an oil rig, trades commodities from his darkened, video-wired beach house (as cozy, Danny says, as the inside of a digital watch). Finally, there are Jane Holt, Newport Beach's first female police chief, who believes she can find safety in life if she can achieve order, and her old-fashioned partner, who knows the folly of that hope...
Less wealthy furniture buyers have developed a fancy for Early American pieces as well, which has spurred a market for machine-made reproductions. Since the sale of the Newport desk, Kindel Furniture of Grand Rapids has booked orders for 110 replicas at $19,000 each. Buyers who prefer the real thing can choose pieces from a second tier of expertly designed antiques selling...