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Whenever Bus was racing, supper at the Mosbacher household was a pretty lively affair. "Why did it take two minutes to get the spinnaker up?" Papa would demand. "Why did you tack when you did?" Recalls Bus: "He was most sparing with his compliments. If I pulled a really bad blunder, I would arrange to have dinner with a friend. On one or two occasions I stayed the weekend." One of Emil Sr.'s concerns was sportsmanship. "He thought it was terrible to file protests," says Bus, "and he always warned me not to get involved in gamesmanship, which...
...match she made in 1894 between Nicky and Alicky would have been a happy one, had they not received the vast, ramshackle Russian Empire as a wedding present. His father, Czar Alexander, died at 49, and carefree Nicky, who had expected that papa had another 20 years of healthy despotism ahead, had to fill his big boots. Mourning marred the sumptuous Orthodox wedding, and worse was to come. At war with Japan in 1905, Nicky sent the Russian Baltic battle fleet lum bering round the world, but it was sunk in 45 minutes at Tsushima. What Nicky called the "monkeys...
...through a mincing machine and well seasoned, it's very palatable, almost like beef. We have often served it in our home to guests and noted their amazement when they were told, after eating it, that it was elephant meat." No mere prankish host, Patrick Hemingway, 39, Papa's second son and a trainer of game wardens at Tanzania's College of African Wildlife Management, disclosed that he is trying all sorts of canape capers, hopes to thin overproductive herds and raise cash for African wildlife conservation by exporting canned game. "There is a potential market...
Kelly Shannon drifts along in happy anonymity in Congress, spending his weekends playing rough games with his large, noisy, competitive family, until Papa becomes obsessed with this dream of putting him in the White House. Enough money lavished in the right places brings Kelly a thick folder containing evidence of corruption in high places. Soon he is a fixture on TV, the most talked-about young politician in the country. In fact, the path to the White House seems clear until Kelly runs headlong into his own conscience...
...through the blackness by memorizing the map and counting his own steps; each time his left foot hit the ground 67 times, he calculated the team had covered 100 meters. Back at the landing zone, Brown's whispered message filtered into the PRC transceiver: "Four seven, this is Papa Two. I'm in trouble. This is Papa Two . . ." No reply. The triple-tiered jungle canopy drowned his call to the pickup helicopter. Brown moved his men soundlessly across the clearing and set up a radial defense-each man flat on his back, head to the center...