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There are four parts to Adams House; three of them are attractive, comfortable--relics of an era when the function of a building was still good living. Two of the three are Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall, the former quietly Tudor, the latter faintly Gothic, both of them built around the turn of the century to provide elegant Gold Coast young gentlemen with elegant young apartments (F. D. Roosevelt '04 lived appropriately in Westmorly South, now B-entry). The third part is Apthorp House, Master Reuben A. Brower's official home, where he entertains and serves tea to students, guests...
Adams House also boasts, in modest terms, its own swimming pool (it is a very small pool) and its own pool table (it is deep under-ground.) The swimming pool is in Westmorly; the pool table in Randolph. Naturally...
...years in prison and $40,000 fines, Igor hired an expensive lawyer, Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer, and said: "I am confident I will be cleared." Meanwhile, Cholly Knickerbocker had "voluntarily submitted his resignation, to be acted upon at our discretion." Discretion seemed an appropriate word: William Randolph Hearst Jr. is himself married to Igor's second wife, "Bootsie...
...Winston chose his official biographer: rambunctious Randolph, 51, his son, the journalist. The prodigious task calls for five volumes, or some 1,250,000 words. Four researchers, two secretaries and an archivist are already closeted in the Churchill mansion in Suffolk, sifting through 300,000 unpublished papers. And Randolph is still calling for more from "anyone who can send letters from or about Sir Winston or any firsthand recollections...
...this long, mocking novel those little flowers are hero and heroine: Randolph Sudderland Shepherdson III, a rich, stupendously naive, goodhearted young man; and his fiancee, Laurie Mae Lytle, a beautiful, innocent, saintly young schoolteacher. They will be blissfully happy, living on love and Randy's $50,000-a-year income from his inheritance...