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Yelps & Bruises. On one two-mile stretch of the Apple River near Somerset, Wis., as many as 2,000 tubers drift by on a sunny summer weekend. The current is swift enough to keep off the mosquitoes, the scenery is of travel-brochure quality, the tubes rent for 50?, and the Apple offers several stretches of rough water that lend the illusion of sport. Every once in a while the submerged portion of an inner tuber hits a projecting rock, resulting in yelps, bruises and occasional punctures- not only in the tube...
When the first rays of dawn on a Somerset Maugham...
...then leaped first by $1,500 bounds, then by $3,000, then by $30,000. It was a three-way race until Agnew's of London dropped out at $2,116,800, and from then on the bidding seesawed between Marlborough Fine Arts, Ltd., represented by David Somerset, who conspicuously signaled his bids with a large red pencil-and Norton Simon, the California industrialist and art collector (TIME, May 29, 1964). Finally the price leveled at $2,175,000. Four times Christie's auctioneer, I. O. Chance, repeated the bid; then he brought down his hammer, announced: "Sold...
MARGARET KOYE Somerset...
Rising Competition. Isaacs, low-spoken and affable, is very much a part of the Boston establishment: his clubs include the Somerset, the Dedham Country and Polo and the Tennis & Racquet. He lives with his wife, who is a portrait painter, and their two children on a 500-acre farm near Boston. Besides his M.I.T. duties, he serves on several boards, carefully cultivates the fund's ties with the business community. Though he feels that rising competition is one of the main problems he will face as chairman, he also sees in it a bright side for M.I.T. The entry...