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...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...
Howard E. Sherman, the only American undergraduate who took part in the debate, asked, "Since money for money's sake is an old-established Puritan principle of English origin, is not the honorable member from Balliol [Joad] regretting an influence which England gave America and which England is now getting back...
...Ideal Pattern. When Australian-born Gilbert Murray entered St. John's College, Oxford, in the 1880s, the great Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato and Master of Balliol College, was one of the most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...
...bought a third-class railway ticket and hopped a train for London. After that he returned to Oxford-to his wife, who refused to share his title ("We are simple people," she said), to his lunches of cold mutton and prunes, and to his troubled surveillance of some of Balliol's new postwar, government-aided scholarship students. Once he told the House of Lords why he was so concerned: "They were from poor homes and poor schools; they were boys for whom getting a state scholarship meant absolutely everything. Therefore their headmasters . . . embraced them. Their dear parents embraced them...
Next week, Lord Lindsay's old routine ends. Now 70, he retires from Balliol, though not from teaching. He is moving bis books and few possessions to a rambling mansion three miles beyond the pottery town of Stoke-on-Trent. There, a new state-aided university has been founded-the first of its kind for British workingmen and their children. When Stoke opens next year, Lord Lindsay will be its first principal...