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...turreted Gothic mansion at Henley-on-Thames used to be a Salesian Sisters' convent. Now the 35-acre estate will ring not to hymns but to a different sound of music. Beatle George Harrison and Wife Pattie have traded in their ranch-style Surrey bungalow and bought the 30-room domain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 30, 1970 | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...maximum permissible sentence that could be imposed on Bruton under the federal Civil Rights Act of 1871 was a $1,000 fine and one year in prison. Federal Judge J. Smith Henley imposed the full penalty, complained that it was too light, and then made it even lighter. He suspended execution of the prison term and released Bruton on a year's probation. Henley's explanation: "The court doesn't want to give you a death sentence, and quite frankly, Mr. Bruton, the chances of your surviving that year would not be good. One or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Too Cruel for the Cruel | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

Forecasters ruled out a white Christmas, but at least the halls of Turville Grange could be decked with some traditional English greenery. In quest of holiday firs, Lee Radziwill and Jackie Onassis led long-haired daughters, sons and dogs out onto the windy meadows near Henley-on-Thames. Besides evergreens, they found what Jackie always finds-a waiting photographer. He caught the sisters Bouvier, hair streaming, in a classic country-life tableau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 5, 1970 | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...splendid day for the seventh annual Henley-on-Todd Regatta, high point of the year for the outback town of Alice Springs, Australia. In broiling sunshine, yachts representing Australia and the U.S. fought it out for the Australia's Cup, while sun-bronzed Aussie and Yank oarsmen strained for the rowing championship. Children fished happily while lifeguards on surfboards kept an eye out for bikinied girls in distress. But as any Aussie will tell you, this was no run-of-the-millstream regatta. Consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Ankles Aweigh | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...oddest thing about the event was that Alice Springs is 1,000 miles from the sea, and the Todd, which has flowed only five times in the past ten years, was dry as a bone. Henley-on-Todd is the Aussies' put-down of England's very proper Henley-on-Thames Regatta. Fun it may be, but it also involves work: slogging through the sand of the riverbed is exhausting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Ankles Aweigh | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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