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...William Thorpe) who hypnotizes them with his pretentious over dramatic stanzas. Enter seven dragoons who are engaged to the maidens and can't understand Bunthorne's power over the women. Then comes another handsome poet dressed in white, from his white buck shoes to his white top hat Archibald Grosvenor (John Dennis Sullivan), who is disgusted by his natural ability to attract women. The maids switch over to Grosvenor who is passionately in love with Patience but Patience with her misguided view of love decides to marry Bunthorne, since her love for him will be selfless...
...Gilbert Grosvenor, president, National Geographic Society, at George Washington University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: "I think of J.R.R. Tolkien. The year is 1926. He sits in his study at Oxford correcting a student's thesis. The student had, for some reason, left a page blank. When Tolkien came to it, he picked up his pen and wrote on the blank page: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' Thus launched one of the great literary careers of our century. He was asked why he had done that, and he replied...
...feuding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the time had come for another showdown. Oil ministers from eight of the 13 OPEC countries gathered last week in London's elegant Grosvenor Square at a five-story, red-brick Georgian mansion where the delegate from the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Mani Said al-Oteiba, maintains his residence. The meeting had an urgent mission: agreement on a pricing pact and a set of production quotas that would keep the cost of oil from tumbling uncontrollably. Over the previous weekend Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors had issued...
DIED. Melville Bell Grosvenor, 80, patriarchal head of the National Geographic Society; in Miami. Grosvenor's great-grandfather founded the society in 1888; his grandfather Inventor Alexander Graham Bell was its second president; his father edited the society's magazine, the National Geographic, for 55 years. "M.B.G.," as he was known, was president and editor from 1957 to 1967. A world traveler and master seaman, he increased funds for research, exploration, TV and films...
...goes free of charge to 5.1 million cable subscribers. The most highbrow of all the culture cables, ARTS has offered a complete performance of Handel's Messiah, documentaries on the lives of Tchaikovsky and Benjamin Britten, and an analysis of a painting by English Artist George Stubbs, The Grosvenor Hunt...