Word: cecil
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Amid the cloistered books & beams of the Provost's Lodge at Eton College, most famed of Britain's swank public schools and academic nursery of England's royalty and peerage, sat last week the newly appointed Provost of Eton, the Rt. Hon. Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, fifth son of the third Marquess of Salisbury, alumnus of Eton and Oxford, Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 26 years. Ever since Henry VI, who founded Eton in 1440, appointed one of his chief advisers to preside over the College's governing body as Provost, this office...
SAGITTARIUS RISING-Cecil Lewis- Harcourt, Brace...
...When Cecil Lewis joined the British Royal Flying Corps in the spring of 1915 he was 17 years old. The mechanically-minded son of a minister, he was already so tall (6 ft. 3 in.) that the primitive flying machines of that period could scarcely hold him. When he made his first flight in a Maurice Farman "Longhorn," with his doubled-up knees interfering with the "handlebars" that worked the ailerons, he could understand why the War Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets...
...Cecil Lewis' more conventional War experiences included a love affair with the mistress of a French officer, a number of accidents and one wound, a bad defeat in mimic warfare with the great French Pilot Guynemer, flights through the spectacular bombardment that opened the Somme offensive, a ludicrous mishap when his plane got away and raced around a field until it crashed. At 19 he was exhausted, weakened with eyestrain, his nerves ajangle, motivated only by a fatalistic conviction that, he would get through. The only time Lewis felt any anger against an enemy air man was during...
When U. S. golfers were winning British titles, the Women's Championship was one they never got. Cecil Leitch and Joyce Wethered together won it seven times in eight years. Last British golfer to win the U. S. Women's Championship was Gladys Ravenscroft. She did it in 1913. Pam Barton's victory last week establishes her clearly as No. 1 golfer of her sex. She won the British championship, with most of America's best players entered, last May. Said she last week: "I'll be back next year...