Word: guernseys
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...valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky...
Died. E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, 79, London-born "prince of storytellers," publisher-publicized as history's most prolific writer, who dictated more than 150 intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German...
...Phillips Oppenheim, 79, who has written 150-odd thrillers about international espionage, murder, grand dukes and grand larceny, returned to his prewar Guernsey (Channel Islands) home. On the Oppenheim stove: a sizzler with World War II trimmings...
...began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...
After five years in the German Reich, Winston Churchill's "dear Channel Islands" were back in the British Empire last week. The Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant...