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...hear that some of the fellows at Harvard have an interest in a school called Pine Manor," Sampson jested. Several years ago, in a rare performance, Sampson was contracted to put on a show for their entertainment. He hypnotized three women from the audience, and told two that they were from a different planet and were unable to understand or speak English. He told the third that she was very special because she could speak English, and understand what the other two girls were saying to each other in their "moon gibberish." The first two gossiped with their gibberish, while...
...many would know how to handle these two Manor moon women. "What could I do?" Sampson asked. "I had to run after them, drag them down, and bring them out of it. And afterwards, they didn't have the slightest notion of what they had been doing. Great place, that Manor...
Walter Chizinsky Briarcliff Manor...
Geography was not without a couple of gems. Pat Mendoza and Sue Goodkin insisted that not only were the Bee Gees going to "Massachusetts" to "do the things they gotta do," but were specific in naming "Pine Manor" as their destination. Patricia Nolan wasn't as close. She missed by about 7000 miles when she said Grand Funk encountered chiquitas in Iran instead of Omaha...
...York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a feast. The menu included gyngere (gingered carp) and blancmange (spiced chicken in almond cream), all to be eaten only with fingers; potables were mead and hippocras (spiced wine). As the banquet's lord of the manor, the host was outfitted in ermine-trimmed cape and ducal crown. The price tag for the gothic gaieties...