Word: balliol
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Some think that Beer's constant body movement is an echo of days on the boxing team at Michigan. While an undergraduate he majored in History and Philosophy, winning a Rhodes scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1932. Majoring in History, he took first honors there in 1935, and returned to the U. S. with his wife, Roberta, whom he met at Michigan and married in England...
Died. Baron Lindsay of Birker, 72 (Alexander Dunlop ["Sandy"] Lindsay), for 25 years the learned master of Balliol College, Oxford; at Stoke-on-Trent, England. Fabian Socialist Lindsay, more noted as an educator than as a scholar, believed that English university education is too stereotyped (mere intellectual training produces only "the clever ass," he once said). In 1938, he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a "popular front," anti-Munich candidate from Oxford. His lectures on political theory after World War I prompted one hearer to say: "One had the sense of being present at an occasion." His son Michael...
...Oxford's sedate cloisters that war came closest to the German Chancellor. At Balliol College, a plaque bearing the name of Hans Clemens August Adenauer caught his eye. Young Adenauer, the Chancellor's nephew, went up to Balliol in 1928. He was killed fighting against the British in World...
...nodding acquaintance, and quickly forgot one another. Greene edited the literary Oxford Outlook, but otherwise slid immemorably through his three years there. He "took a second" (good, but not excellent) in modern history. One of the few people at Oxford who remember him at all is the porter at Balliol ("He lived on Staircase 20, he did"). But the porter is greatly surprised to hear that Greene has made a name for himself...
...Frank Soskice, Attorney General, succeeding Shawcross; 48; soft-voiced, able lawyer; Balliol College, Oxford; called to the bar, 1926; specialized in commercial law; with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (East Africa and Middle East) in World War II, ended his service as major in intelligence; elected to Parliament, 1945; helped prepare indictments for Nurnberg trials; Solicitor General (second law officer to the Crown), 1945-51; a close personal friend of Attlee...