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Last week, in preparation for Britain's coronation-the greatest genealogical event of United Press the postwar era-Editor Pine was hard at work on a new and more painstaking edition of Burke's Peerage, and Britain's proudest family trees were losing ancestors like autumn leaves. "Sir Bernard Burke," says Editor Pine, "was the greatest genealogist of his time, but he had a keen sense of romance." Where Editor Pine could find no justification for Founder Burke's romancing, he ruthlessly pruned...
Each resort had its own tone-or tried to. Tuxedo Park was the home of the tuxedo, frosty formality, and an Autumn Ball that still kicks off New York's debutante season. Like most resorts, it was built by a millionaire with a whim of iron. In the winter of 1885-86, Pierre Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters...
When it comes to choosing colleges, Olympic swimmers are notorious for their poor discretion. Autumn after autumn foolhardy mermen wander blindly down no New Haven, join the Eli Swimming Team, and live for four years deluded into thinking they are getting the best coaching-education combination possible...
Early this autumn, Adolph Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Sports, undertook a careful examination of standings in House sports for the past 17 years...
...today, Wintergreen, the indefatigible presidential candidate who is the people's choice in Cambridge every autumn, gains the solid support of men of Winthrop, Adams, Eliot and Dunster...