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...Harvard fan is the undergrad, with his date from Pine Manor who he is taking to the game. He wears a tweed jacket over a sweater to the stadium, and brings a blanket to sit on and a thermos of milk punch or a flask to stay warm...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Harvard Athletics: A Casual Romance | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

Feudal Utopia. Last week Dame Sibyl's grandson and heir, Michael Beaumont, 46, took leave from his job as a design engineer of guided missiles at the British Aircraft Corp. and prepared to move into the Seigneurie, the manor house of Sark. The 22nd Seigneur of Sark showed every sign of preserving his grandmother's feudal Utopia. "We want to keep the island quiet and peaceful," he asserted. "I believe the life of a seigneur to be infinitely more rewarding than making weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARK: Death of a Dame | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...year-old daughter of a British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork, on the Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought by police in connection with Irish Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Renegade Debutante | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Muscatine faltered in the first set against Pine Manor's Muffy MacDonald, 0-6, but struggled back to capture the match, 6-4, 6-1. In the other match, Wood found little difficulty with Pine Manor's Jane Gallagher and eased through a two-set victory...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Radcliffe Sweeps Two Tennis Matches | 4/19/1974 | See Source »

Doubles combination Magraw-Agoos continued the team's winning ways by smashing Pine Manor's Pratt-Reineman duo, 6-4, 6-0. Radcliffe suffered its sole defeat during the two-day stand when Funaro and Gelzer fell, 6-2, 6-1, in the last match of the afternoon...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Radcliffe Sweeps Two Tennis Matches | 4/19/1974 | See Source »

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