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Died. John Shaffer Phipps, 83, financier, lawyer, polo player and father of polo players, lavish traveler (he once hired a private, nine-car train-three for ponies, three for people, three for baggage-for a trip to Florida, also took more than 100 trunks on a European voyage), owner of...
Sharps & Suckers. One key to a successful game, Yardley learned early, is to be observant, to study the others at the table until you know all their idiosyncrasies. "When players check, call or bet," says Yardley, "a man with a sensitive ear can detect a slight inflection of voice and...
In Cairo the Soviet Union led the parade of governments extending formal recognition to Nasser's new regime. At the U.S. Damascus embassy, due for downgrading to consulate general, an aggressive local enterprise tacked a notice on the bulletin board: "All sizes of packing trunks. Call Mrs. Kobbani." Under...
Tusk Force. To most, Morel is half-crazed, a crank at best, his pro-pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of...
A bachelor, who says he is married to La Boxe, Alphonse, 25, takes his profession seriously. Before last week's fight he prayed for victory in a Los Angeles synagogue; he still wears his handmade trunks in every fight, even when TV's demand for a readily identifiable...