Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprises. Last week Sotheby's put up for sale a 168-piece silver service that had never been shown outside Berkeley Castle. It is the work of the great French Silversmith Jacques Roettiers and part of it was probably ordered by the third Earl of Berkeley for the 21st birthday of his son in 1737. Rare and beautiful as it surely is, it fetched a price that astonished even astonishment-proof Sotheby's. After only 2½ minutes of bidding, the gavel went down on the figure offered by Frank Partridge & Sons of London and New York...
...apprenticeship under the late society photographer known as Baron, a close friend of Prince Philip. On assignment from the Tatler, Tony managed to inject into his pictures of society dowagers and hunt balls a touch of lightheartedness. His first commission for the royal family, in 1956, was a 21st birthday picture of the Duke of Kent, which helped bring the era of stiff, formal pictures of royalty to an end. Tony's childhood studies of young Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and his coolly beautiful portrait of Margaret on her 29th birthday, made his reputation as a "society photographer...
Last fall William Ezra died of a heart attack at 42. Automatically, the job falls to his son, the current Ezra. Under state law the boy may not actually exercise the function until his 21st birthday. Meanwhile, Future Trustee Cornell has another problem: getting into Cornell. Last week, between tearing around town on his bicycle and leapfrogging over fire hydrants, Ezra gave new thought to the matter. Said he: "I only have one bad mark, a D in spelling. But I'm bringing it up, I think...