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Nickel Coin turned out to be quite an investment for Owner Frank Royle, 31, a Surrey farmer. He bought her as a yearling filly eight years ago for 55 guineas ($242), sold her for $882, caught her in a selling race two years later and bought her back for $1,200. Royle, who turned her into a steeplechaser in 1948, was $23,744 richer by last week's victory...
Cried Tory M.P. Robert Boothby at a public meeting in Surrey last week: "We shall harry the life out of [the Socialists...
...Harvey [the rabbit], and she would call me Harvey," Russell remembers. With such an accolade, Russell's party-singing flourished. Among the many hosts and hostesses who have invited him around are the Windsors themselves. "The Duke's quite a person," Russell says. "I sing The Surrey With the Fringe...
...base for Britain's opium trade with China. It outgrew its sinister origin, to become an outpost of British comfort, respectability and sound business methods. The British merchant princes who owned Hong Kong tended their beautiful, peaked island as carefully as a well-hedged Surrey garden, determinedly insulating it from the turbulent realities of Asia...
John, who has no children, lives like a lord of the manor in a rambling Tudor stone mansion near Valhalla, N.Y., 22 miles north of Manhattan. He sometimes cruises the paths of his 365-rolling, wooded acres in a fringe-topped surrey drawn by one of his blooded road horses. He used to play golf on his private nine-hole course with his wife, Polly, but since her death last year has given up the game. Now he keeps fit raking leaves, laying stone walks to his favorite retreat, a cozy cabin overlooking a pond. His constant helpers in these...