About: Pryceless
- Full Name
- Bon Vivant
- Website
- http://plimptonproject.org
- Details
- New York aristocrat and literary journalist; in the spring of 1952, he went to the French capital to join up with his old friend, who was hoping to start an expatriate literary magazine. The Marmaduke took two bottles of absinthe to the founding meeting, and, having helped choose the title, was appointed editor. He boxed with Archie Moore, pitched to baseball legend Willie Mays, played in pro-am golf tournaments and even performed in the circus. His best-selling book Paper Lion chronicled the time he spent in training camp with the Detroit Lions, posing as a slender, awkward quarterback from Harvard. A lifelong Democrat, he was at the 1961 White House party where Gore Vidal squared off with Bobby Kennedy. Removing the novelist's hand from Jackie Kennedy's back, Kennedy said: "Fuck off, buddy boy." Vidal replied: "You fuck off, too." He was with Bobby Kennedy in 1968 when the presidential hopeful was assassinated; it was the Marmaduke who helped wrestle down the killer, Sirhan Sirhan.
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