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Farm to Market. The Colonel rises at 9 a.m. in his 35-room Georgian mansion (begun by grandfather Joe Medill the year Bertie was born) at Cantigny,* his 1,000-acre farm near Wheaton, Ill. Over a frugal breakfast of coffee and juice, he scans the Trib's fat, one-star final and Marshall Field's skinnier Sun, tearing out clippings. He scribbles swift notes on them and stuffs them into his pocket for delivery to his editors. For an hour he strolls Cantigny's gardens and rolling fields (now mostly idle). He has given up riding...
...usually golfs on the private approach course on his 300-acre estate at Reigate, Surrey. There, beside the golf course, stands an imposing establishment: a 35-room Georgian house, 20 cottages, swimming pool, tennis courts, a stable, and kennels housing 200 of the best Labradors and pointers in England...
...John Davis, 39, a slim, sharp Englishman who is Rank's general manager and heir apparent. He occupies the neighboring suite so that his encyclopedic movie knowledge, learned in 18 years in the business, is always at hand. By 9:30, Rank is in his office, a remodeled Georgian mansion in Mayfair. Business does not even stop during...
...ground, consuming the greater part of the library including all save one of the volumes John Harvard had donated. Feeling partly responsible for the tragedy, the Commonwealth put forth funds to the sum of $23,000 for a new building, and Governor Francis Bernard himself designed it in traditional Georgian style. Thus in 1766 the College's fifth oldest edifice was erected...
Just short of Eliot's meat and drawbridge the wayfaring Freshman may find refuge in the hostel of undergraduate vitality, midst the Georgian stretches of Kirkland House. Sacrificing towers, gothic frills and the trimmings to the more pretentious castles along Mt. Auburn Street, Kirkland has watched its legend grow from the strong soil of diverse interests that make up this cosmopolitan House. More than any other, Kirkland has managed to fuse its genuine cross-section of Harvard into a tightly-working group that yearly supports its teams with periodic rallies, and its activities with the only House yearbook to grace...