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...been adding to or sprucing up their teen programs faster than Justin Timberlake switches girlfriends. The Den at Sandy Lane on Barbados is now outfitted with computers that offer Internet access, PlayStation on a big-screen TV, pool tables and a jukebox filled with Pink and Avril Lavigne. Beaches Boscobel, a resort in Jamaica, has an arcade with Sega, Xbox and PlayStation, bonfires on the beach and a teens-only disco. After braving the Leap of Faith water slide with a 60-ft. drop at Atlantis in the Bahamas, minors can head to Club Rush, a nightclub with leopard-print...
...York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art created the newly expanded Egyptian galleries, which are named for her, and provided in perpetuity for fresh flowers in the Great Hall. She also contributed heavily to the restoration of Monet's magnificent gardens at Giverny, to the renovation of Boscobel, an early 19th century Federal mansion not far from her home in suburban New York, and to the massive efforts to save the ancient Egyptian temples at Abu Simbel. Meticulously organized and attentive even to small details, she believed, "Beauty is medicine...
...headquarters is a few miles from his estate in Mount Kisco, N.Y., he gave up editorial control in 1965 when he turned 75. He and Lila, who had no children, began giving away many of their uncondensed millions even before that. Macalester, for instance, received more than $10 million; Boscobel, a historic, early 19th century house on the Hudson, another $10 million; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art $5 million 'The dead," he said, "carry with them to he grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away." It was an appropriate comment from...
Forty years ago three drummers knelt in prayer in a bedroom in the Central House in Boscobel, Wis. They were vowed to form an organization for the Lord's work. They could not think of a name for it, though, until Insurance Man Will D. Knights opened his Bible, read from Judges how the Lord had put a sword in the hand of his mighty warrior, Gideon. Paint Salesman Sam Hill and Shoe Salesman John H. Nicholson agreed that "The Gideons" would be their name...
...work-putting Bibles in hotels and institutions. The 40th anniversary "Gideon Roundup" was organized by Gideon Nicholson, spry at 80. Gideon Knights was there too, but feeble at 86. Gideon Hill died three years ago. In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future...