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...famed Salzburg Festival in doubt, the air from Hollywood to Paris has resounded with projects for new "Salzburgs" outside Greater Germany. While most of these projects have been evaporating in talk, certain features of the Salzburg idea have quietly come into being at Glyndebourne, an old Tudor manor in the midst of England's hilly South Downs, 60 miles from London. Glyndebourne, content to remain in character, has not proclaimed itself the "Salzburg of England." But responsible critics have acclaimed the Mozart opera performances given there each year as the finest in the world today...
Francis J. O'Connor, Jr. -- Miss Jane Garland, Pine Manor...
Three large, typewritten folios, produced officially by the College of Arms, now trace the new viscount back to William Morrice of Swarford who in 1278 held land in Swarford in the manor of Hooknorton. "Not a quarter of i% of the population," commented the Sunday Express, "can trace their ancestry back this...
...village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought the neighboring manor house. According to Viscount Nuffield: "The only true story in the press blurbs about me is that in 1921 I slashed the prices of all my cars ?100 [$500] when the industry was facing hard times. By the end of the year my sales had easily topped those...
...Fort Plain, New York; B. F. Bart, Jr. '38, West Redding, Connecticut; R. S. Bart '40, Redding, Connecticut; P. Baur '38, Leonia; New Jersey; D. Beck '38, Union City, New Jersey; P. I. Blumberg '39, New York; M. P. Brown '40, Rochester, New York; L. A. Campbell '39, Pelham Manor, New York; F. L. Chamberlin, Jr. '39, Stamford, Connecticut; J. L. Chase '39, Tully, New York; H. F. Cline '39, Elizabeth, New Jersey...