Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he had heard quite a bit about Finchden Manor− school for maladjusted boys 25 miles southwest of Canterbury−the London Times correspondent was hardly prepared for the frail, abstracted man who runs it. "What is the curriculum?" asked the correspondent...
...county of Sussex. For years she had had no settled home while her colo nial officer husband, Sir Colin Garbett, was busy with reclamation and irrigation projects in India and the Middle East. Now, separated from him and tired of wandering, she wanted to settle down in the Elizabethan manor house with her daughter Susan, and run the farm...
Last week six trucks rolled up to the old manor house, and policemen stepped out under the copper beeches and laburnums. Admitted to the great house, one of them thrust a document at Lady Garbett. It was an eviction notice ordering her to leave home and farm by 3 o'clock that afternoon...
Replacing Edmund Mansure, who resigned under fire (TIME, Feb. 20), South Dakota-born Franklin Floete, 66, promptly let it be known that GSA is in for some changes. He snorted with disgust upon entering his dark, cavernous office, modeled after the hall of an English manor house, where Albert B. Fall once sat as Harding's Interior Secretary and where Harold Ickes ruled before working himself a new building. "You don't call this an office," snapped Floete. "I'm going down the hall a few doors, where there is a human-sized office...
...Radcliffe's last game, Wednesday, the quintet crushed Pine Manor...