Thinley had gone the national dress code one better, donning ceremonial knee-high leather boots with upturned toes to welcome Connecticut-based photographer Kit Kittle, an old family friend, and me.
Kittle the younger's article ( "Manila Rules") is this issue's Memoir, an essay about an after-graduation year off that commenced with loafing around home in Greenwich and wound up, somehow, with him being introduced in the center ring at the world cockfighting championships in Manila.