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...homes and office buildings in Florida, apartments in Houston and a town house in New York City that was later sold for $2 million. With his partners, he maintained a fleet of three dozen or more boats-no one kept count-and a cash reserve so large they could shrug off million-dollar business losses. Eventually they had to buy their own turboprop airplane to ferry overflowing cash profits to uninquisitive banks in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands...
...left with no answer for it all. Some will only shrug their shoulders and tip their snifters. But others will continue to ponder the mystery of the Yale game, remembering the words of the late Professor George Lyman Kitteridge '82, "There must be something to this Yale game, they do it every year...
...remembering, amid the incessant bending of elbows for vodka collins, gin and tonics, seven and sevens, and pitchers of imported beer, where it is that you are supposed to do all of this drinking, and a lesser amount of consuming solid fibers. You ask your Yale friends and they shrug their sioulders, and allow their faces to assume that certain empty look you only get while reading the questions on your Economics 10 mid-term. One Yale junior tells you cutely, "If you want sex, or drugs, or rock and roll, you've come to the wrong place. Here...
Thank God. Fred Astaire may shrug off his movie work, but he can't take that away from...
...here for five generations, finds himself suddenly surrounded by Manhattan transplants, "most of them professional people." Actor Dustin Hoffman lives down the road, not far from Author William Styron. Hurlbut owns one of six working farms left in Roxbury, a tranquil village to the north of Danbury. With a shrug, he says flatly: "There's not much you can do about it, is there? It's happening everywhere...