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There were 300 guests at Lynnewood Hall one day last week, more than could be seated in the dining room with its dark red French tapestries and the majestic bust of the great Prince de Conde. The ballroom, with its Louis XV and XVI furniture, its Chinese vases, its four crystal chandeliers, was filled with tables. Joseph Early Widener, master of the Hall, was having a large party...
Sociology 6 Emerson 2112 P.M. (XVI)Economics 32 Emerson 211Economics 34 Emerson 211Engineering Sciences 3b Robinson AnnexFrench 14 Emerson AFrench 26 Emerson AGovernment 23 Emerson 211Mineralogy 10 Mineralogical Lect. Rm.Philosophy 8b Emerson 211Physiology 4 Emerson...
Last week the new white marble Temple was completed at Louveciennes, not far from a chateau once occupied by comparatively chaste King Louis XVI. Plans were announced to place the remains of Marshal Joffre in his Temple of Love this summer...
...Stimson, who had a mild case of laryngitis before he left Washington, presently found it so bad in Geneva that he had to sit at home in his ornate, rented Louis XVI villa ("The Stimson Musée") wearing heavy woolen socks, a bathrobe and silken muffler. Meanwhile, Scot MacDonald's doctors were pestering him with doctorish demands that he "take three full hours of complete relaxation and visual rest every day." In this atmosphere of inaction, invalidism and frustration correspondents set down...
Inside the Chateau de Bessinge self-styled "Delegate" Stimson made himself at home in Louis XVI salons set out with slightly rusty suits of armor suggesting a museum. All the Louis XVI furniture, according to a spokesman for the Swiss real estate agent who leased the Chateau de Bessinge is upholstered in genuine Gobelin tapestry...