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...Irish-American family, he grew up in all the opulence that money can buy. Though Boston's Brahmins scorned the Kennedy clan (both of Jack's grandfathers became highly successful Democratic politicians), Jack and his brothers and sisters spent their childhood holidays in such faraway places as Palm Beach and Rome, hobnobbed with princes and politicians. After prepping at Choate, Jack headed for Harvard. When his multimillionaire father, Joseph Kennedy, became U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Jack interrupted his junior year to make a grand tour of Europe as a privileged spectator of the beginning of World...
...heated, kidney-shaped swimming pool and some of the most magnificent scenery in Africa. There are Turkish baths, massage parlors, hairdressing salons, and big freezing rooms in case anyone leaves the amenities long enough to shoot a buck or gazelle. Inside, the club is alive with jungle plants and palm trees; the entrance to the bars and wine vaults are framed by hedges of African spears. Each room has its own bath and fireplace. A special club airplane is provided for anyone in a hurry, and a stretch of the Kenya coast will be bought for big game fishing...
...also a lot of nameless people with money who, as Gable put it, "are so far down the list they seem to have got in just to do the cleaning." Possibly Profitable. Gambler Ryan, who also owns the Salton Sea Yacht Club and the Bermuda Dunes Club in Palm Springs, says that Americans are tired of Miami Beach and will "go nuts" about the Africa he has discovered for them...
...Duke of Marlborough) of England, the Winston Guests of New York, the Gary Coopers of California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year-old Charlotte, blooming in her Yves St. Laurent (white strapless) exclusive, waited with her parents, her Sister Anne...
...fighter who meets her charge for the first time and all but devours the child with her eyes. It is the troubled stranger, caught suddenly between youthful belligerence and a growing awareness of responsibility, who catches a doll full in the mouth, spits a broken tooth into her cupped palm, agonizes over a job she may not be able to handle...