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...parents had had their way-and in 19th century England, parents usually did-Leonard Woods Newman would have been a London tobacco broker. Apprenticed at 18, he began his career dutifully enough. Then, one warm June morning as he pedaled his bicycle to the Bexley railroad station, he fell in love-with a swarm of Clouded Yellow butterflies...
...week to Princeton, NJ. Lights flickered off in dormitory windows, and students poured outdoors into the practice blackout. Tentatively, someone touched off a few firecrackers. "We want Joe Sugar!" chanted a few campus politicians as they tried to turn the excitement into a rally for Joseph A. Sugar of Bexley, Ohio, Ivy Club member and candidate for president of the senior class...
Like many another U.S. college, Kenyon was founded as a school for the training of clergymen. Later becoming a liberal arts college, it still maintains relations with the Episcopal Church, but accepts students of all faiths, has a separate theological seminary (Bexley Hall). Until recently the undergraduate body has been limited to 300 (about half of them Ohioans, on the average). This year's G.I.-swollen enrollment is a record 500, and the college plans to settle down to a postwar...
...Tory battle cry was "Bread!" Winston Churchill stumped for the Conservative candidate in the Bexley by-election (one of three held in Britain last week). "In the darkest days of war we managed to keep [bread rationing] from you," cried Churchill. "Socialism means queueing...
...year-old "Workingman Tory" Peter Welch (his father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since 1945: 84%) and in blitz-shattered, slum-infested North Battersea (loss...