Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East. "Lord Jim" Holloway (so dubbed for his courtly ways during a tour as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy) since February has paced a shore-based bridge in London as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, commuted to his Navy-owned mansion in Surrey in a black Imperial. His clipped accent, his malacca stick with mufti, and his penchant for quoting Dickens and Thackeray delighted Londoners. But in 40-odd years of Navy life, Annapolisman Holloway ('19) has carved a commendable seadog career. During World War II he steamed in with the first...
Millionaire Franco Diligenti's 13-room mansion in Buenos Aires was merry with lights, flowers, a crowd of 500 and the world's only living quintuplets. The crowd, mostly teen-agers in semiformal dress, spilled from the parlor to the patio, swirled around the skating rink, tennis courts and swimming pool. The two Diligenti boys in tuxedos and the three girls in white tulle gracefully acknowledged congratulations on their 15th birthday, the coming-out age in Argentina. Beamed papa Diligenti to Family Dr. Carlos Montagna: "We did a damned good...
...racketeers who commute to their showplaces in the western Chicago suburb of River Forest (pop. 12,500), none lives in higher style than Anthony Joseph Accardo, 52, top banana in the crime syndicate founded by the late Al ("Scarface") Capone. Tough Accardo's $200,000 stone and concrete mansion, designed like a combination pleasure dome and pillbox, offers various conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, two bowling alleys, a pipe organ, a roof garden where strolling violinists play dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special convenience to guests...
...solicitous. "What would be nicer." she asked, "than to have him marry a nice American girl? Think what this would do for friendly relations between his country and the United States." The general met Zsa Zsa for dinner and moved into a $2,500-a-month mansion until he can start a cruise on the Trujillo yacht Angelita.* Happily, Zsa Zsa began to plan a party aboard the yacht...
...time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays of water. He reduced his handshake, proffering only the index and middle fingers. For reasons known only to the great mystery man, he preferred cotton to toilet paper. He slept exactly six hours per night, and declared that he permitted himself no dreams. He once...