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...Beaufort Scale, a moderate breeze (Force 4) is one that merely raises "dust and loose paper." A Force 10 gale causes "considerable damage to buildings." Somewhere between the two must be a wind of sufficient force to waft a heavyweight politician into active presidential candidacy. But how to recognize the draft? "It is very difficult, believe me," Nelson Rockefeller admitted last week...
...hunts in the British Isles today include such proletarian pacesetters as the Banwen Miners, a club formed in 1963 by Welsh coal diggers. While the miners may not all wear the scarlet coat and velvet cap, they bound after the fox with abandon. The Duchess of Beaufort, who rode with them one Saturday, graciously paid the supreme compliment of pronouncing the pace "grueling...
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Miss Caroline won the award for a diary she wrote entitled "Notes on My Twentieth Year." Awards were also made to Grace A. Gregory '66, for a paper "The Origin and Formation of Meteorites," Elisabeth L. Hackner '65, for a poem "Beaufort, 1898," and Anne Hebald '66, for a paper "The Sun, Line and Cave Allegories in the Republic of Plato: A Cyclical Theory." Honorable mentions went to Caroline G. Balderston '66 and L. Ann Cameron...
Marlborough's first break came in 1948 when a young art buff named David Somerset, the son of the heir presumptive to the Duke of Beaufort, joined the staff. "He's related to half of the English aristocracy, and they entrusted him to sell their masterpieces, all blue chips," says Harry Fischer. On their own behalf, the founders landed some handsome commissions from sales of major collections on the Continent, and they have used their capital with devastating shrewdness...