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...high, leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac in McLean, Va., just northwest of Washington, is a broad, lovely, 46-acre estate called Merrywood. There, from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis, rode her pony and gamboled about. Merrywood is owned by Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, who bought it in 1934 for $135,000. and who put $100,000 or more into such extras as a greenhouse and an indoor badminton court. But last week there was little merriment at Merrywood. Sighed its master, a gentle man who is known to friends and family...
...contract to sell Merrywood, for about $750,000, to a syndicate that wants to build three 17-story apartment buildings on the property-which, with its environs, has been described by a local newspaper as a place of "verdant grandeur." The prospect of hundreds of apartment dwellers despoiling McLean has aroused residents of the area to an outburst of verdant vituperation...
Include: Dr. Carl A.L. Binger, in Psychiatry to the Universities Health Services, and Mrs. Binger; Brinton, McLean Professor of and Modern History, and Mrs. ; Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, Civil Polity, and Mrs. Demos; and Courtlandt Elliott, lecturer on classics, and Mr. Elliott...
...used a deft hand in keeping Roses abloom. For better or worse, her refusal to relinquish a good, crackling laugh turns the serious side of the play into something of a non-sequitur. Miss Levine may, of course, have written it in as such. At any rate, John McLean acquits himself with versatility and a feeling for the contradictions of "The Doctor's" character. Jane Schroeder is marvellously funny as the hostess, and as Rosie, Deborah Steinberg may yet prove the playmate of the western world...
...McLean...