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...more boys, ended when the family moved to Paris, where Ida died suddenly after the birth of a fifth. The next year John married again, and in time four more children were born. The family lived in France for a while, then Dorset, and finally in a white brick Georgian house in Hampshire, a charming bedlam of bright children and assorted animals that was John's headquarters until he died...
Knighthood in 1956 has changed Bill Lyons not one whit. He still belongs to no clubs, leads a quiet life with his wife at their Georgian-Victorian country home. His only hobby, says a close friend, "is making Jaguar even better." He is also determined to make it bigger. To get more plant space, he last year bought Jaguar's venerable neighbor, the Daimler Co. Last week Sir William made his boldest move yet: he bought the Coventry plant of defunct Guy Motors, Ltd., where he plans to diversify into trucks. Aim: to have cart horses as well...
Headed by scholarly Philip B. Gove. 59, a onetime English teacher at New York University, Merriam-Webster's Ph.D.-proud editors toil in a Georgian edifice in Springfield, Mass., that looks more like a college library than a company HQ. They began collecting a new batch of commonly used words before their last edition came out (complete with a misspelling-Brünnehilde...
...travelers have already found a way to keep their sense of duty without paying for it. Rather than buying the usual perfumes, cashmeres, cameras and bone china, they have found that antiques make some of the best bargains in Europe (e.g., a London shop sells a fine cut-glass Georgian decanter, circa 1770, for $15; or, for the collector's library, Discovery of a World in the Moone, written in 1638 by Bishop Wilkins of Chester, for $75). And certified antiques are items that age cannot wither nor Customs nail-they are still 100% duty-free...
Womb & Wing. The purists were horrified, and Saarinen's work was always to be controversial. In his U.S. embassy in London he attempted to adapt a wholly modern building to the Georgian style...