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...Brennan's anyway. Chelonian racing has been popular in California for over a decade, but at Brennan's it has become a cult. Each Thursday evening up to 700 aficionados toting map turtles, pacific pond turtles, diamondbacks and other favored varieties converge on the bar in search of a spot on its 13-race card and the chance to cart home a plywood trophy. There are time sheets and a record book, and the turtle with the evening's fastest time has its name engraved on a plaque that sits behind the bar. The track record...
...acre estate near the pleasant village of Knowle, 25 miles from Darlaston. The rambling, rose-covered "cottage," which Owen bought three years ago for $73,000, has a main section that dates from the 16th century. It is surrounded by spacious lawns, well-tended flower beds, a small pond and a paddock for Granby, the family pony. Later in the day the Owens' two oldest children−Rebecca, 8, and Sarah, 6−will receive riding lessons from their handsome blonde mother Elizabeth, 33, John's stepcousin as well as wife, the adopted daughter of his Uncle Ernest...
...beneficiaries of 22 years of peacetime-or at least, trucetime-refinements. Officers' clubs and enlisted men's recreational facilities have been continually improved and some now boast bowling alleys, photography darkrooms, and gem-polishing workshops. Camp Casey has carefully trimmed lawns, a well-stocked trout pond, a nine-hole golf course with green fees at a pre-inflation $5 per month, two swimming pools and a huge gymnasium...
...memory that seems outside of time, the Cambridge public library carries, for me, two separate, equally static images: The main reading room is filled with older people and Cambridge kids and anyone who has nothing to do with Harvard--it reminds me of walking up toward Fresh Pond. Where the houses are small and have American flags, on the first day of summer. And the library music-listening room involves this demonstration I was covering for The Crimson, only the demonstrators never showed up. The demonstration was outside 545 Tech Square, where the CIA has its local office...
...Whitt Pond Boston...