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High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw
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