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...Wentworth - By - The - Sea, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, will be the scene of '36 reunion festivities; the class will leave for Portsmouth this morning and expects to return for lunch tomorrow...
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About to be devoured by coal-hungry Government steam-shovels were the last vestiges of lawn and garden surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, the huge, 200-year-old, Yorkshire family seat of the Earls Fitzwilliam...
...last week, as the bulldozers kept on snorting, the Earl had had enough. Off he went to London to protest in person to Clement Attlee. Solidly behind him was the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. In Wentworth village pubs the local tenantry shook their heads. Even the Yorkshire coal miners, led by union president Joseph Hall, voiced their objections. Said the Manchester Guardian approvingly: "The people of the north were deprived of space, light and beauty by the ravages of the industrial revolution ... it is evident that the miners attach a real value to the preservation...
...City plant was built in the earlier days of the war, when laboratory mice for the processing of tropical-disease serum were desperately scarce in the U.S. Government joined forces with industrv-which in this case turned out to be professional mouse breeders Frederic G. Carnochan and C. N. Wentworth Cumming. They already had a plant at New City. With Government aid, production zoomed from some 5,000 to 15,000 mice a week (price: 25? a mouse). Old. blue-blooded European strains, in danger of war extermination, were crated, bedded down on peanut shells, and flown to New City...