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...quiet place to entertain guests" is the social program's description of the Grays 1 Common Room. It is open Monday through Friday from 9 A.M. to 11 P.M., and weekends from 1 P.M. to 11 P.M. Magazines, newspapers, or a quiet game of cards or chess are available...
Helicopters & Nudists. Though he is far from making the annual $420,000 needed to keep Woburn up, the duke plans a motel and trailer park, will stage a tractor race with the Marquess of Bath in July, will even entertain a convention of nudists in August ("Well, why not?"). For those who call such antics undignified, the duke has only scorn: "Try to sell your dignity to a pawnbroker and see how much you get." Besides, he says with a self-satisfied smile, "the people who have been so bloody nasty in the past are now beginning to copy...
...advent of Spring again reminds us of the unfortunate scheduling of weekday parietal hours. While our natural inclinations would send us down to the playing fields to help the House athletic teams or out into the sun for various Mithraic rites, we are forced to entertain lady guests in our rooms during daylight hours...
...Storyteller Temple has presented this season, Abu overcame the opposition of a smoke-breathing dragon and two villainous Oriental princes, won the princess' hand and heart. The Land of Green Ginger-a flying oasis that whimsically flitted about with its roots dangling-was satirically spoofy enough to entertain adults, was tricked up with a passel of fantastic gimmicks to bewitch children. Items: a magic carpet so aerodynamically proper that it would not fly when overloaded, a boy genie (his father was in the bathtub) who spun into view from nowhere when Abu rubbed the magic lamp. As the gallant...
Died. Count Alfred Potocki, 71, once Poland's No. i aristocrat, brother of Count Jerzy Potocki (onetime-1936-40-Polish Ambassador to the U.S.); in Geneva. In Poland's pre-World War II twilight, Potocki liked to entertain visiting royalty at the family's lavishly furnished Lancut Castle, which is now a Communist rest center...