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...Rumanian wife, Betty Joan Perske, as she was then named, was an only child. The parents soon divorced and Betty, who has not seen her father since she was eight, was reared by her mother. She attended New York public schools, a Tarrytown, N.Y., boarding school called Highland Manor, and graduated from New York City's Julia Richman High School. She began modeling when she was twelve, "to make a little dough," and had graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar by the time she went to Hollywood at 18. In her very first film, To Have...
...locale to which the girls-all brunettes-were bussed home daily from South Chicago Community Hospital appeared ideally suited for a dormitory. Known as Jeffery Manor, it is a pleasant, white-collar neighborhood of small apartments, neat homes, frolicking children and Dairy Queen stands, well removed from the city's roiling slums-and with one of its lowest crime rates. As one resident put it, "It's the kind of neighborhood where you can walk your dog after midnight...
...world, which either does not appreciate it or cannot afford it). One Greek word for a private person was "idiot," which, then as now, carried implications of ignorance -or at least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford has pointed...
Before sunset the first day, 2,500 tourists had swarmed past the brick garden wall that he had laid himself, the intricate rockeries and the stream that he had contrived, by means of pumps, to recirculate uphill. Then they wandered through the rooms of Chartwell, the manor house in Kent where Sir Winston Churchill happily wrote, painted, puttered and sometimes governed from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote...
Dreams of Snakes. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette was the youngest kitten of a hardy litter that ran wild on a manor-farm in Burgundy. "Look!" their lusty mother cried a hundred times a day, "Look!" Colette looked, and her descriptions of the farm include some of the loveliest pages in the literature of childhood. "Even then, when I was only five, I so loved the dawn that I would go alone through the mist in search of strawberries, black currants and hairy gooseberries, my blue eyes deepened by the blurred and dewy greenery all around me, my pride swelling at being...