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...always a lace-and-ribbon rather than a cap-and-sweater socialist. He adored reason and persuasion above emotion and force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...
...wearing an old crinkled sweater, a battered white hat and a floppy pair of pants with the bottoms turned up (see cut) appeared at the flossy Mandelieu course in Cannes, France, played a bit of golf, went home. One good reason startled club officials did not give the old fellow the bum's rush: he was the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan...
Taking time off from winter chores, Farmer Booth slipped off his buttoned sweater and sat down on the living-room sofa in his blue denim shirt. The farm, he figured, was worth better than $125,000. Last year he sold his hogs for $27,600. He got $10,169 for his corn, $9,216 for his wheat. "I just figured up my income tax and it scared me," he admitted. "I paid more this year than I ever...
Almost every morning at 8, a tubby little old man in baggy pants, a wool shirt and a brown pullover sweater emerges from the concierge's cottage of the Chateau Valrac in the sleepy little Franco-Spanish border town of Prades. Usually, with his huge German shepherd dog Follet trotting alongside, he walks down the road toward the beautiful medieval Abbey of St. Michel de Cuxa, or toward the Canigou, the mountain which lies near the Catalonian border. He seldom heads toward the center of the town; the townspeople of Prades are inordinately proud of Pablo Casals, the great...
...installed pool tables, bowling alleys and card games for the kids. He let himself be chucked into the lake summers at the First Christian Church men's outing, and he wrestled all comers on the grass. He was not above presiding at public rallies in an old turtleneck sweater...