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...stately homes of England, perhaps the stateliest is Chatsworth, a vast Palladian palace set on 50,000 acres of park and woodland, which for generations has been the family seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, whose family name is Cavendish. The first earl, who was one of Henry VIII's bullyboys, began amassing the huge family fortune by taking over some of the prize abbey lands confiscated during Henry's fight with Rome. The Devonshires came to epitomize the British landed aristocracy, and became famous for their arrogant eccentricities...
...youngster, Indians, some handsome mountain scenery, and just about every other tested box-office ingredient that Writer Frank Fenton and Director Otto Preminger could think of. Actually, all Preminger needed for a successful movie was Marilyn to sing and hip-swing her way through honky-tonks, cascading rapids and woodland groves...
Today, under Horace Mann Bond, its first Negro president, Lincoln spreads out over 275 acres of campus, farm and woodland. Its 15 buildings are an architectural assortment ("You might call them Honest Redbrick or Grotesque Style," says one professor), but they house a first-rate liberal-arts college as well as one of the top Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus...
Today the golfers play what is technically called an away match. They oppose Babson Institute at the Woodland Country Club. The match starts...
During the hike-which the Justice proposed after a Post editorial advocated construction of a modern parkway along the wilderness-bordered canal-both came to the conclusion that at least parts of the area should be a protected woodland preserve. But despite this triumph, Douglas was obviously unprepared for the sort of welcome he received as the hikers marched on Washington. A dozen volunteers attached themselves to the party at Seneca, 18 miles from the capital. A group of enthusiastic boys, one of whom carried a large U.S. flag, joined up at Great Falls...