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Election of eight men to the board of the Lampoon, humorous undergraduate publication, was announced last night. The men elected are: Heywood Fox '33 of Pelham Manor, New York, L. T. Wing '35 of Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and J. deB. Bertolet '35 of Reading, Pennsylvania to the Literary Board; Vincent Palmer '35 of Milton and W. H. Lewis, Jr. '35 of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey to the Art Board; and R. B. Murray '34 of Hampstead, Maryland, H. T. Pierpont, Jr. '35 of Worcester, and W. G. Barker, 2d '35 of Brookline to the Business Board...
John Jacob Raskob sold his million-dollar estate "Archmere" on the Dela ware River at Claymont, Del. to the Premonstratensian Fathers of St. Norbert College, Depere, Wis. A show place with a palatial manor house in which are five nurseries, the property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house...
...Depression reduced Sir John to advertising for sale last week Fritwell Manor in Oxfordshire, his rural pleasure palace for almost 20 years. Lady Simon still appears at social functions in latest Paris creations, bedight with diamonds & pearls. They keep their dignified town residence...
...story starts in Scrooby, in Shakespearean times, when William Brewster, lord of the manor, first listened to the Brownists preach of a God whom the Church of England failed to recognize. After a stormy career at court Brewster retired to his country home, became the mainstay of what was regarded as a rabid sect. Among these were Eleazar Dexter and his younger brother John who, though saints of a kind, still thought enough of the devil to fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order...
...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...