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High life

Six decades and two chat-up lines

In 1958 I picked up a woman in a bar. What happened next has taken a while to play out...

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

 Gstaad

In this freewheeling Swiss village of the 1950s, the unconventional was the norm and monumental drinking commonplace, but the manners of the players were always impeccable. Yes, there were ladies of lower-class parentage and with a dubious past, but they covered it up with a grand manner and an affected aristocratic confidence they had learned through experience.

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