""Chance Encounters in the 1930s-1940s" include such personalities as opera diva Jarmile Novotna, Bill Mauldin, Ann Sothern, Roy Rogers and Trigger, and China with the Marines during World War II. In "Chance Encounters: Presidents I Have Known (Sort of)," A.C. writes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Laura Bush and George W. Bush.". "In "Chance Encounters in the 1950s," A.C. meets T.S. Eliot, Four Freshmen, George Shearing, Van Cliburn, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, Andres Segovia, Larry McMurtry and Robert Duvall, Charles Goren, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Leonard Penario, Arthur Fiedler, Rise Stevens, Yul Brynner, Kathryn Grant Crosby, John Wayne, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, Leonard Warren, Mickey Mantle, Dick Gregory.". ""Chance Encounters in the 1960s" include Al Dexter, Ross Barnett, Stanley Marcus, Joan Didion, James L. Herlihy, John Updike, John Rosenfield, Larry Hagman, Ross Perot, W.H. Auden, Artie Shaw. "Chance Encounters During the Turbulent Dallas Days" highlight Ann Richards, H.L. Hunt, Adlai Stevenson, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Edwin Walker.". ""Chance Encounters in Love and Fate Along the Way" relate A.C.'s meeting with his first wife, Betty, his renewal of friendship with second wife, Judy, after Betty's death, and meeting his friend Bob Green of Albany, Texas."--BOOK JACKET.