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...Power character, Ben, is a big, hot-blooded, black-haired Bristol bastard whose story is as old and formal as legend : the proud but-for-base-birth heir-to-the-manor who a) vows vengeance against his humiliators, b) wanders and adventures far, c) returns rich, to deal with friends and foes according to their deserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bastard's Chronicle | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Chief humiliator is Uncle Arthur Blake, Squire of Breetholm Manor, who takes his elder brother's by-blow into service, spends a futile year trying to break his spirit. Benjamin beats him to a pulp, boards a Boston ship, is marooned for seven years on a South Pacific paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bastard's Chronicle | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Welch also announced that Robert W. Chase '44, of Wellesley Hills and Thayer Hall., and Richard C. Sorlein, of Pelham Manor, N. Y. and Wigglesworth, has been added to the Jubilee Committee. These appointments give the Jubilee Committee twelve members and make it complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

...critics, fun for artists. Britain's famous Sitwells love fun. Last month, between bombs, they had their fun in court. The Three Sitwells are not an acrobatic act. They are Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, the fractious, fastidious scions of Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, Lord of the Manor of Long Itchington. Osbert is a poet, essayist, novelist (Before the Bombardment, Escape With Me). Sacheverell is an outstanding authority on baroque art and Liszt, author of a distinguished travel book (Roumanian Journey) and much verse. Edith usually dresses like a medieval prioress, writes sharp, hard, colorful poetry that gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Suing Sitwells | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...Deal" and the "Willkie Crusade" each sent two ardent representatives to Wellesley yesterday afternoon to convince the denizens of Pine Manor to vote the right way in a debate sponsored by the gals' International Relations Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS FIND PINE MANOR IS OLD GUARD'S STAMPING GROUND | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

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