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...rolled up. The beach was thronged with people--screaming and shouting or talking in barely audible whispers. It was crowded with horses and dogs, children and mothers. On the other side of the road, the cliffs were ablaze and a strong, hot wind blew cinders and smoke, turning the palm trees into flaming torches and sending crowds scurrying to the water's edge. There were fathers looking for children, children looking for pets. It was impossible to see through the wall of flame and smoke and everyone was sure their house was gone. Like sinners in the inferno, they...
Florida has plenty of small towns, but one is famous above all the rest: Palm Beach (pop. 9,700) is a plush, pastel resort for the very rich. Florida also has plenty of divorces: 75,000 last year, more than any other state but California and Texas. But the divorce trial under way at the Palm Beach County courthouse has, like the town, achieved an overcharged notoriety. For starters there is a prize surname: Herbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 52, who filed suit to dissolve his six-year marriage to the former Roxanne Dixon, nee Ulrich. Peter is one of Newspaper...
...amount to some $246,000 a year. Some prominent items: $25,000 for vacations, $12,000 for entertainment, $18,000 for her clothes, another $18,000 to dress Twins Maclean and Zachary, 5, and $3,000 to buy the birthday presents "Mack" and "Zack" are obliged to give their Palm Beach playmates. Peter Pulitzer, athletic and severely good-looking, hopes to convince Circuit Court Judge Carl Harper that Roxanne is a wastrel unfit to raise the boys...
...Europe in 1972. The putative incest allegedly occurred two years before Roxanne and Peter met, and both principals deny any such intimacy. Rather, according to Leidy, her stepmother Roxanne made an untoward advance in 1979 after the two had sniffed cocaine in the bath room of a West Palm Beach disco. Testified Leidy: "She said that if I ever felt I wanted a lesbian relationship [that] she wanted to be the one I got involved with...
With the recent raising of the Campaign's sights, there's going to be a lot of hullabaloo around here, as development officers try to preserve momentum from the first part of the fundrive and refocus it into the new push. There'll be palm-greasing, backslapping, nostalgia, and simple exhortations to key alums to the fact that the final goal is no longer near, but two years and $135 million away...