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...successful afterhours bookmaker, Goldsmith since 1965 has expanded Cavenham from a modest confectionery maker to a multinational with sales in 1975 of $3.1 billion. For years, Goldsmith has maintained a highly visible double life; he has a wife and two children in Paris, plus a mistress (Lady Annabel Birley, after whom London's upper-crusty discotheque and dining club "Annabel's" is named) and two more children in London...
...England's Eton is to tutor England's Establishment, which is to say that a man had better respect the customs. Headmaster Robert Birley, who took over in 1949, seemed at times a bit rebellious. To the shock of Pop, the school club with old boys in high places, Birley opened Eton's doors to a few lads from the lower classes. Last year, when Birley was passed over for a knighthood, the London Sunday Telegraph blamed the "Pop lobby." This summer Birley will quit with a year yet to go on the usual 15-year tenure...
Lamb then notes the well-known fact that Arthur Wellesley's real remark was far less martial, and last week Eton's Headmaster, Robert Birley, produced his own version. After Waterloo, according to Birley, Wellington visited his old house at Eton, where boarders in his day had been looked after by a Mrs. Naylor. Asking to see a stream in the garden, the Iron Duke explained : "I really think I learned my spirit of adventure jumping over the big black ditch at the bottom of Mrs. Naylor's garden...
...Establishment" that runs English culture and politics. But in 1948 came a dramatic change: for any poor youngster with a rich mind, Britain's welfare state promised a free university education through a vast system of scholarships. "For the first time," recalls Eton's Headmaster Robert Birley, "the working class realized that universities belonged just as much to it as to the 'others...
...best answer came from Eton's headmaster, Robert Birley, who traced the words back to Montalembert's De l'Avenir Politique de I'Angleterre, published in 1855. According to Count Montalembert, the Duke of Wellington, returning to Eton in his old age, exclaimed: "It is here that the battle of Waterloo was won." Obviously the playing fields had been tucked in later. Triumphantly, the seventh Duke wrote another letter to the Times last week: "The only authority for attributing the phrase to Wellington is a Frenchman writing three years after the Duke's death . . . Wellington...