Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are some who might be impressed by Tittenhurst Park, a 72-acre estate 26 miles west of London, complete with a rambling Georgian mansion, Tudor tea pavilion, tennis court, heated swimming pool, gate lodge and four staff cottages. There are also those who are unaffected by such trappings. Among them are Tittenhurst's new owners: Beatle John Lennon and his Japanese bride, Yoko Ono. "A mansion?" scoffs John. "A nice functional house with just a couple of rooms for Yoko and me." What about that splendid private picture gallery? "Just a shed where everyone plays pingpong...
Welcome Advice. Rockefeller modestly does not refer to himself as an art expert but as an art lover. He points out proudly that, under his urging, New York was the first state to set up an arts council. He loves to conduct bemused state legislators through the executive mansion past Calders, Picasso tapestries and Klees, pointing out their hidden beauties. "They have recognized that art is not a liability from a political point of view," he says with delight. In fact, the legislators have voted to open the capitol's corridors to exhibits of artists from different areas. Rockefeller...
...model for "Manderley," the fantastic estate in Rebecca, Novelist Daphne du Maurier chose a place she had loved ever since she was a child. It was "Men-abilly"-a sprawling, gray stone mansion standing on some 400 acres on the coast of Cornwall. Miss du Maurier finally rented it in 1943, five years after writing Rebecca, and there she has lived among the rhododendrons and cherry trees. Unfortunately, the owner would never sell "Menabilly" to the lady who immortalized it, and now, she says, "his second cousin wants to move in." So after 26 years, the novelist...
...evasion, many French businessmen still manage to support their families largely at company expense. But there is now an extra tax on company-owned cars, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for a top executive to prove that, merely for business entertaining, he really needs a company-paid mansion staffed with cook, butler, chauffeur and gardener. He might get away with writing off a hunt as a business expense, and at least a few executives still enjoy a time-honored French fringe benefit: charging off to company advertising expenses the rent and bills of their mistresses...
WHEN Boston After Dark's staff of five moved into their Boylston Street office last April they thought they had found a mansion--but now they're looking for more space. In April they were considering using half the rooms for a movie theatre, but by this Wednesday they were pushing aside cans full of garbage to make room for their eighteenth staff member. The cans of garbage are hidden away in the barest of the eleven makeshirt rooms--for BAD's office is colorful, alive; walls are covered with posters, clippings, day-glow pink and green buttons. While most...