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Under direct examination Adams had told of Cohn's intense eagerness to get Schine assigned back to New York. On Jan. 18, said Adams, he talked long distance with Cohn, then on vacation in Boca Raton, Fla., and passed on the unwelcome word that Schine would be at Camp Gordon for from two to five months...
...throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens, about 6.000 people paid $2 apiece for entertainment on a somewhat simpler scale−water skiing, swimming and diving exhibitions. Said Owner Richard Pope, who as head of the state...
...guardian of minors. Yet he was a gambler. He gambled at cards and on horses; his project to drain the Dismal Swamp (it is only partly drained to this day) was in a line of wild American land speculation that did not end with Addison Mizner at Boca Raton. Washington gambled at war: with his neck, when he took up arms against the king, and with his army, in bold flashes that interrupted months of the utmost military caution. Despite, or perhaps because of Washington's conservative reverence for God, church and tradition, he turned against the king...
Divorced. Fred Perry, 46, British-born ex-world champion tennist (amateur and professional), now the pro at Florida's Boca Raton Club; by his third wife, Lorraine Perry, 44, after six years of marriage, no children; in West Palm Beach...
...family, Rentschler relaxes-like an engine idling. He usually takes a Martini or two before dinner, and may sip champagne afterward. With both daughters married, he and his slender, attractive wife Faye live pretty much by themselves. Winters they spend in their Spanish villa near Florida's Boca Raton Club, where Rentschler plays tennis well enough to take on ex-Wimbledon Champion Fred Perry. He travels back & forth to East Hartford-as well as everywhere else-by plane. Even in the roughest weather, Rentschler merely grunts to his pilot, "Getting a bit dusty outside," then resumes reading memos about...