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...their political tenacity, there were few obvious resemblances between Canada's King and Britain's Walpole. King, grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie, who in 1837 led a futile rebellion against the tight clique ruling Upper Canada, began his career as a social worker. Walpole, to the manor born, worked for the good of the landed gentry. A high liver, a great man for the ladies, he was also a follower of the hounds. Bachelor Mackenzie King lives austerely. Though he has been known to ride, he would be miserable in a pink coat...
...Everyone in the English village of Brensham knew that their lovable lord of the manor was as mad as a hatter (he didn't have a penny in the bank and happily ate his own rabbits, stewed, three times a day). But when they discovered that the old gentleman had never seen a movie, they realized that his condition was more serious than they had suspected, and the pub-keeper's daughter rushed Lord Orris off to the nearest movie house. He emerged spellbound, exclaiming: "My dear, it was wonderful! That splendid detective! . . . And those policemen on motorcycles...
With her devoted husband, Henry Maxwell Andrews, an investment banker with a cool, scholarly, finely whetted mind, she lives at Ibstone House, in the county of Buckinghamshire, 36 miles from London. There she prefers to be known as Mrs. Andrews. Ibstone is an 18th Century manor house whose back windows command one of the noblest vistas in southern England-broad fields falling away to a deep valley in the Chiltern Hills. Around the house lies the 85-acre farm, where the Andrewses raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, hogs, and pasture their purebred Jersey herd. Near the house is an immaculate modern...
...twelve: Smith, Bennington, Wheaton, Bradford, Skidmore,Wellesley, Vassar, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, Pine Manor, Mount Holyoke, Connecticut...
...Pine Manor is summed up succinctly as a place where young ladies learn "about the ways of college boys and how they come and go in two years instead of four. Everyone is prepared for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Junior League just that much sooner," the authors comment...