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...early marks were of a kind to turn the mind of a boy to romantic poetry -the rare sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister...
Died. Jesse Wilford Reno, 85, inventor in 1892 of the inclined elevator (a forerunner of the modern Escalator), son of Civil War General Jesse Lee Reno, who gave his name to Nevada's notorious "Biggest Little City in the World"; after long illness; in Pelham Manor...
...Robert Rutherford McCormick is more easily caricatured than portrayed. The sharpest shaft ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...
...effort took her last breath, and as she died Lady Tichborne uttered a great curse. Unless each year, on Lady Day, the Tichbornes gave to every adult in the village one gallon of flour, and to every child one half-gallon, the manor house would crumble; there would be a generation of seven sons, a generation of seven daughters, and then the Tichborne name would...
...some 600 years the family fended off her threat-and survived. Then, the Tichbornes went to France and the gift was forgotten. In their absence the manor house was destroyed. Two generations of seven sons and seven daughters came & went, and the Tichborne lands and title passed to one Edward Doughty. Born a Tichborne, Edward-by a fluke of fate-had changed his name earlier. The curse was only technically fulfilled, but since then every Tichborne has been careful to make the annual presentation of flour to the villagers of Alresford...