Word: wroxton
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...your fine article about CBS's new series The American Revolution [April 5], you neglected to mention the greatest irony concerning the anticolonial Lord North. Namely, that his ancestral home, Wroxton Abbey, is now a branch of an American university...
...Wroxton College...
...Wroxton, England...
...producers show Ustinov getting his beard shaved and putting on a powdered wig and 18th century rig over his own prime ministerial paunch. Sevareid also read up on the subject for a month, but wore his usual mid-20th century suit for the filming, which took place in Wroxton Abbey, North's ancestral home, near Stratford-on-Avon...
...contagious new fashion in American undergraduate education. Stanford started it in 1958 by acquiring a German estate in tiny Beutelsbach, near Stuttgart. It added a villa in Florence, a hotel in Tours, another hotel near Vienna only last September. New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University took over Wroxton Abbey from Oxford's Trinity College, moved in last summer. Spokane's Gonzaga University (enrollment: 2,440) has its own six-story building in Florence, and California's University of Redlands (enrollment: 1,500) leases a building in Salzburg. Temple University announced last week that it will open...