Word: chateau
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Gathering in the university's Fogg Museum, 160 past and present fellows toasted a tradition of pure scholarship with bottles of Chateau Haut-Brion '65, saved especially for the occasion. The society that they were commemorating is the creation of longtime (1909-33) Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, who endowed the society with $2 million of his own money ("It took nearly all I had") in the belief that the independent work of great scholars was the soul of a great university. He patterned the society after fellowships offered in England and France. Said Lowell: "Productive scholarship...
...cockpit, puffing on a cigar, when his flier reminded him that when they became airborne the cigar would be extremely dangerous. He scrambled down, flung the butt on the airstrip, and stamped on it. One evening in France he and [his secretary] Eddie Marsh were driving to his chateau in a Rolls-Royce. It was a trying journey, as Marsh described it in his diary: 'First a tyre burst with one of those loud bursts which make one think one has been assassinated-and then ... Winston gave a wrong direction, left instead of right, at a crossroad...
...smoked a 9-lb. young torn turkey over hickory embers (only $29.95). English plum pudding ($12) is on its way from Altman's. The wines, all from good old Sherry-Lehmann 's catalogue, will go from Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut (about $20) with the caviar, to Chateau d'Yquern ($90) with...
...lend a glamorous cachet to listings of tableware and nightgowns. Neiman-Marcus, for instance, has offered everything from his-and-her airplanes to a paleontological safari in Utah to baby Asian elephants. Sakowitz, its Texas rival, has presented such opulent entries as a bathtub full of diamonds, a chateau in a French wine district and a personalized offshore oil rig. This year proves to be reliably rich in the wish books...
...Paris, Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante and his correspondents, supplemented by European Economic Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, were working on the summit scheduled to begin Friday at Louis XIV's baroque chateau. The bureau was also setting up its own additional facilities outside the press center in a hotel 400 yards from the chateau gates; these included telex connections with the bureau's main office 14 miles away in downtown Paris. In London, Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo made detailed preparations to cover the Reagans' stay at Windsor Castle, even as the bureau, including Frank Melville and Art White, continued...