Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princely Prose. The first article, which LIFE publishes this week, has a few remembered glimpses of the late Victorian era into which David was born, and many a richly detailed picture of the Edwardian era in which he was reared. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, but "to my family I was and always have been 'David.'" He recalled "the great Queen" as an old lady in a white tulle cap, black satin dress and "shiny black shoes with elastic sides. But what fascinated me most about her was her habit of taking breakfast...
...Duke, as an amiable successor to the gay and worldly Edward VII, and of his mother, Queen Mary, as the ruler of the family. But the Duke describes his late father as a stern sea dog, a domestic martinet who lived on a clockwork schedule and refused to let David go to public (private) schools lest they teach him bad habits. (" 'The Navy will teach him all that he needs to know...
Unprincely Life. At Sandringham, the Duke recalls, King Edward VII occupied the merrily run "Big House" while David lived with his family in a "Bachelors' Cottage." "When the whole family was assembled under the roof, together with a lady-in-waiting for Mama and an equerry for Papa, a governess for Mary and one or two tutors for my brothers and myself, 'The Cottage' was full to bursting, so much so that when a puzzled visitor asked where the servants slept, my father answered that he didn't know, but supposed it was in the trees...
Every August the grouse season took David's father to the Scottish moors. But his mother preferred to take her brood on a gay cruise "up & down the Thames, in our tiny electric launch, with a white tasseled...
...talk about it. But their own silence has not kept others from talking. In Manhattan last week, 500 delegates to the 39th National Interfraternity Conference met to beat around the subject, if not to face it squarely. They went away seemingly satisfied with the justifications offered by their chairman, David A. Embury, 61, a Cornell alumnus ('08) and a member of Acacia. Said he: "There is nothing arbitrary or capricious or unnatural about . . . restrictions based on race, creed or color. . . . [Fraternity] members live together, eat together, sleep together, date together and share each other's joys and sorrows...