Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his sumptuous Mt. Kisco, N.Y. home was razed by fire last spring with a $75,000 loss in art alone, Producer Billy Rose found just the thing to provide a handsome frame for his bride, onetime Movie Beauty Joyce Mathews: a 40-room, $430,000 whitestone mansion in Manhattan. Said Billy: "We'll only use about a dozen rooms to live in. Some of the 40 are servants' rooms, wine cellars, that kind of thing. It's not as frightening as it sounds...
...daughter Arabella who caught the eye of "the most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular admiral, while Charles became a fairly decent...
...resort town of Bar Harbor, Me., trailed by his chauffeur. He had not phoned ahead for an appointment; nor had he, like many of the wealthy summer residents of Mount Desert* Island, sent the chauffeur down after working hours to bring one of the barbers back to his mansion. "Mr. Rockefeller," Barber Jim Corbett likes to tell his friends "just comes on in and takes his chances...
...horse a good ride. He was up on Count Fleet when that great runner took the Kentucky Derby in 1943; he was piloting Noor when that Irish-bred fighter got his nose in front of Citation to win the San Juan Capistrano Handicap. Today he owns a modest California mansion- modest, that is, for a millionaire jockey-for a time he had a 500-acre Nevada ranch and he followed the ponies around the circuit in his own plane. It took Johnny 30 years to ride to this affluent estate, and he is still a long way from hanging...
...brick Georgian mansion in northwest Washington, where he lives with his wife Cynthia (a daughter of Davis Cup Donor Dwight Davis) and three children (Cynthia, 12; William McC. Ill, 9; Diana, 7), Martin spends his evenings poring over the financial reports that sprout in 2-ft. stacks on his mahogany desk and bookshelves at the Fed. Punctually at n o'clock, Martin goes...