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...stairs were in the Hohenzollerns' last architectural effort-the Cecilienhof, a Tudor manor constructed in 1913-17 for the Crown Prince. In a graceful sweep, the stairs descended from Churchill's quarters into the 50-foot-high meeting room. These stairs were meant for a grand entrance, complete with aigrettes and sequins. Obviously (to finicky protocol experts), Churchill could not be allowed to come down the stairs while Truman and Stalin gawked at him from below...
Winchester Wilds and Belmont Manor have a certain something in common, or so is spread the rumor, but W. W. (for brevity) has a little more of it. Success, so say the W. boys (Woodin, Willcox, Walker, Wood, Brocker--a ringer--and Wolf), if only in the mind, so take heart, mssrs. Schroeder, Shellenbarger, Marchese, Bourgeois, and Ballentine...
...Pelham Manor...
...glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor of American history at Cambridge, are as vividly colored: he met and "robbed" many an English man in college commons, in pubs, manor houses, railway carriages, on country meadows and London sidewalks...
Phil "How're yaw'll" Masquelette, roommate of "the Light," currently has the eagers for a Pine Manor miss, says Dame Rumor. Red Summers, authority on anything but women, claims to have been hitched early in his career, but Kewpie O'Donnell is telling a great untruth. Tunstall "Pal" Perry, uncoverer of much information, seeks any help that can be offered him by anyone. If you have any old information that you are about to dispose of, see "Pal"--he wants...