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Married. Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 35, ex-Navy lieutenant, wavy-haired heir to one-quarter of the Chrysler motor millions, lord of a horsy 1,000-acre Warrenton, Va. plantation with a 72-room manor house and 70 outbuildings; and tall, svelte Jean Esther Outland, 23, pretty blond gym teacher at Virginia's College of William and Mary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norfolk...
Squirearchy's Decline. The Headmistress, tenth and latest of the Thirkell line, is just like the other nine. When Headmistress Madeleine Sparling evacuated her blitz-threatened London girls' school to Harefield Park in Barsetshire, impoverished Squire Belton of Harefield welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing...
This weekend promises to be well filled with dances and such. First off this afternoon there's the affair at St. Ben's Center, then tomorrow, dances at Curry and Pine Manor (see Mrs. Inglis for reservations). We saw Professor Hanson about this former affair and he promises eider to all ensigns and light homework for all middies interested (see Mrs. Bonn for reservations...
Shades of Pine Manor...
Osbert's father was fourth baronet and Lord of the Manor of Long Itchington. "It is quite evident," he once remarked, "if you've read the family letters, that we've been working up toward something for a long time." At these words Osbert "experienced a slight lifting of the heart." But his father was not referring to the literary notoriety of his three children.* Sir George, wealthy landlord of the great Yorkshire estate of Renishaw (inherited by Sir Osbert in 1943) believed that art was merely "part of the general make-up of the cultured...