![]() ![]() John Caruso, who is 18, plum-cheeked and a maintenance worker in nearby Lake Worth, watched a pack of crazed greyhounds dart along the dirt. At the dog track the other night no one seemed to care much about the royal arrival. There is also a weird yelping across the bridge in the low-rent city of West Palm. Even "the Queen of Palm Beach," the redoubtable socialite Mary Sanford, has chosen to bolt the Breakers beano. "That's the day I have my legs waxed," she said reasonably. Gregg Dodge, the widow of auto mogul Horace Dodge, announced to The Miami Herald recently that she would attend neither the afternoon polo match nor Armand Hammer's royal evening event at the Breakers Hotel. Some of those here who made their fortunes through industrial or marital guile refuse to cartwheel down Worth Avenue to the strains of "Hail Britannia" for the youthful scions of a shriveled empire. In Palm Beach, a town almost completely run by career dowagers of immense fortune and bejeweled hauteur, the arrival here Tuesday of the future king and queen of England is being greeted with a studied yawn. Mad dogs and Englishmen are howling across the water, each to each. The tropical air is thick these days with dark complaint. ![]()
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