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...Thomas, whose father is a high school lacrosse coach in the Baltimore area, it was back to the drawing board -the family's dining-room table in Towson, Md. There, like retired British officers re-enacting the Boer War, the Thomases use ten salt shakers to diagram new plays. Young Jack, who quarterbacks the Johns Hopkins' football team mainly because he wants to stay in shape for lacrosse, explains that "I'm not interested in anything else. We Thomases just go to school to play lacrosse and then to coach. It's like a religion...
Back in the 1950s, when Clyde J. Key was a high school student in Fort Towson, Okla., most of the kids looked up to musicians like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Bill Haley. Not Clyde. His idol was Conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1957, when Toscanini died at the age of 89, Clyde had a dream in which he came upon the old man's weeping, grief-stricken ghost in a desert...
Married. Pamela Lee Agnew, 25, eldest daughter of Vice President Spiro Agnew; and Robert E. DeHaven, 25, teacher in the Maryland school system; in a Presbyterian ceremony attended by 350 guests (among them, President and Mrs. Nixon); in Towson...
TREVOR E. HODGES Towson...
Dogged Devotion. Princeton, N.J., the Hotel Cecil, London, Villa Paquita, Juan-les-Pins, France, La Paix, Rodger's Ford, Towson, Md., and the Garden of Allah Hotel, Hollywood, are the datelines of his letters, and they are printed by Editor Turnbull, who is also Fitzgerald's biographer, in the sensible fashion of grouping them with the people they were addressed to. Mostly they are to his mother, his daughter, his agent, his editor at Scribner (Maxwell Perkins), to his old Princeton pals, Wilson and John Peale Bishop. What shines through them all is his dogged devotion...