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...wasted no time in proclaiming a new era. The Pioneer Club was already back in the talent-scouting business, and the Nugget Boosters Club gave a special luncheon to honor the Denver Post's Sportswriter Jack Carberry for being the faithful apostle of D.U. athletics. Said Carberry: "The hilltop school has really and truly come out of the dream cloud in which, athletically speaking, it has been sleeping." Said Robert W. Selig, chairman of the board of trustees and an executive of Fox Intermountain Theaters: "We have started with a new regime. We have a winning policy . . . We will...
Hollywood's real-estate news of the week: Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke signed papers to buy the massive hilltop villa Falcon's Lair, onetime home of the late Rudolph Valentino...
Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face...
Deadly Needle? The answer, as it came to Ida Scudder: "I must go home and study medicine, and come back to India." That was 58 years ago. Last week a sprightly 82, Dr. Scudder sat in her hilltop bungalow at Kodaikanal, overlooking the Vellore Christian Medical College and its hospital, and opened a stack of letters and telegrams. Her name is a famous one in India these days-a letter once reached her addressed simply, "Dr. Ida, India." But the mail was heavier than usual last week because friends around the world were congratulating her on winning the Elizabeth Blackwell...
...back to Sanchi. Prime Minister Nehru opened the celebration, and officials of eight Asiatic countries were on hand, among them Burma's pious Premier U Nu. Before a reverent crowd of 100,000, the bones, encased in glass, were carried up to a new stupa, built on a hilltop near the old ruins. Then, while saffron-robed monks chanted Buddhist litanies, the remains of the honored disciples Sariputta and Moggallana were laid to rest...