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    IN THE PRESENCE OF GREATNESS

    May 26, 2020 5 minutes
    By Roderick Emery.

    If you bought a lottery ticket and suddenly found yourself in possession of a vast fortune, and if you bought, with said fortune, let days here and there on grand estates and then invited random but enthusiastic strangers and a couple of your best shooting buddies, or your children, and stood them in a line with some of the acknowledged greats to get a taste of that rarified atmosphere, do you think that would do it? I reckon you’d get famous pretty quick. Or would it be like teasing a dog? Answers on a postcard.

    However, I’m not sure that was what the editor had in mind when he asked me how you build a reputation with the sporting set. I also imagine he has in mind a positive reputation because building a negative one

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