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Since 1919, Real Estate Man Samuel F. B. Morse,* often called the "Duke of Monterey," has tried to create something almost as exclusive with his famed Del Monte Properties Co. on California's cypress-clad, ocean-girt Monterey Peninsula. He has sold parcels of the 14,000 beautiful acres (at as high as $50,000 an acre), but has always reserved the right to tell the owners what to do with their land. He excludes Negroes, Asiatics and former "subjects of the Ottoman Empire." Once in, purchasers cannot build a house or fence, cut or plant a tree, keep...
...begun to fray around the cuffs. Except for the war boom, his company, which controls three golf courses (including Pebble Beach and Cypress Point), two hotels and a beach-sand processing plant, has lost money from 1932 on. When the U.S. Navy took over his famed 400-room Del Monte Hotel as a wartime training center, Duke Sam began to wonder if naval officers would not be a possible mainstay for the new depression he feared. So-why not sell the Navy his Del Monte Hotel...
Last week, President Truman signed a bill authorizing the Navy to buy (for $2,149,000) Duke Sam's Del Monte Hotel as a postgraduate "Little Annapolis" for naval officers. By then, Duke Sam was already busy planning a model village, including a $320,000 shopping center, to house the 12,000 to 15,000 instructors, students, wives, servants, etc. he expects to live near the school. On the site of the present Del Monte golf-course clubhouse, he is planning a new Del Monte Hotel to house non-naval customers. As the Navy officers come...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Milton Katims conducting Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Turina's La Oración del Torero, Khachaturian's Suite from Gayane...
...This tiresome betrothal of mine with Francesco della Rovere! And you're still not lord of Città del Monte. Six months to wait-six months at least! Perdition...