Word: tudor
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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...
...Crimson's greatest loss will be Bauer--the winner of the John Tudor Memorial Cup, given to the team's most valuable player. The hard-working captain tallied the winning overtime goal against UNH in the ECAC opening round and the tying goal in the skaters' overtime win over Michigan Tech in the NCAA's. Bauer's 87 career points put him in the Crimson's all-time top ten scorers...
...Panama's Pacific coast, and found inside a treasure of staggering size and beauty: a magnificent, 203.84-grain pear-shaped drop pearl. Over the years, La Peregrina (The Wanderer), as the gem came to be called, passed from Philip II of Spain to his English wife Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), then on to the Bonapartes of France, and to England's Marquess of Abercorn. Last week La Peregrina turned up on the block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, and it was swiftly sold for $37,000. The buyer? Parke-Bernet was not saying, but reporters...
...never too late to learn something new about sport-even for champions. Take Mrs. Tudor Gardiner who, as Tenley Albright, was twice world figure-skating champ and 1956 Olympic Gold Medal winner. Now Tenley has two young daughters, Lilla, 6, and Elin, 2, and once a week she takes them to the Skating Club of Boston, where the tykes have already shown Mom a trick or two. "It took me a while to learn that skating included running on benches, jumping up and down on the ice and dashing in and out of telephone booths," admits Tenley...
...business," he once advised, "you should open another business." As his enterprise grew, Ahmanson more and more tended to run it from a distance. After doctors recommended thrice-daily swims when he suffered a heart attack eleven years ago, Ahmanson kept office hours close to the pool at his Tudor mansion in suburban Los Angeles. Over the past decade, he visited his Beverly Hills headquarters no more than a dozen times...