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From 1528 onwards, the King-whose sharp little eyes, scrolled mouth and drooping wedge of a nose survive in many effigies-set up court in a manor at Fontainebleau. To it Francis brought some of the best Italian artists of the day: Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolo dell'Abate. Even Benvenuto Cellini spent several years, from 1540 to 1545, in the King's employment, making statues and, as a culmination of his skill as a goldsmith, the famous gold saltcellar (now in Vienna) that he finished in 1543. The Italians' work set a new cultural norm...
Does Howard Hughes know some secret about the latest thing in resorts? Hiding out in the Bahamas or slumming in Managua, Nicaragua, is one thing. But the island of Jersey? Reports had it that Hughes was eying one or another of two vast medieval manor houses surrounded by oceans of greenery, both priced at near $2.4 million. What was there about the Channel island that could bring Hughes out of seclusion in the ninth floor of London's Inn on the Park hotel? Certainly not the fact that Jersey would charge him very little in the way of taxes...
...tenure at Harvard is a complicated, long process (sometimes too long to catch the persons we want), which begins at the level of the department and does not finish until the overseers have confirmed the appointment. The procedure varies somewhat from one department to another but allowing for manor differences the aim of the procedure everywhere is to insure (1) that all assistant professors within the department receive explicit consideration, and (2) that an effort be made to locate and assess the qualifications of suitable candidates anywhere else...
...Pine Manor team came into the Radcliffe match with 4-1 victories over LaSalle Junior College and Boston College, as well as a 3-3 tie with Brandeis. The Manor's coach Judy Bush said that she had lost some players to the Pine Manor field hockey team...
...Radcliffe tennis team plays most of its games during the spring, when they compete against the Seven Sister schools as well as Princeton, Yale, Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth. The team's fall schedule includes only the Pine Manor match and the Intercollegiates...