Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James M. Daleo '49--Maribel Asher (Pine Manor...
...onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate at Glen Cove, on Long Island's North Shore, where they built themselves manor houses...
...manor houses was Killenworth, a million dollars in stone and granite, Tudor style, with 39 paneled rooms, 13 baths, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold...
...Exclusives. The Russian purchase (for a rumored $120,000) was on behalf of 200 employes of Amtorg, Soviet commercial agency in the U.S. At Killenworth, the new manor lords would find rest, recreation and, above all, isolation...
...Glee Club left Cambridge Tuesday morning arriving at Saratoga Springs, New York, that afternoon. After the concert there for Skidmore College and a night spent in a local hotel, they departed for Elmira, New York, and thence to Rydal, Pennsylvania. Returning to New York, the club stopped at Briarcliffe Manor and Poughkeepsie, and finally returned triumphantly to Cambridge late Sunday night...