Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partly compensating for the loss of Eaton and Henderson will be the return to the forwards of Goeff Locke, who played for the Crimson two years ago, and Englishman Mike Nightingale. Neither was available last week...
...past that could not be regained. His mother retired to a sanatorium in Germany; his father moved to Monte Carlo to nurse bitter memories until his death in 1944. At the age of nine, because his ardently Anglophile father insisted his son should be brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the widow of Prince Louis of Battenberg, one of England's greatest naval commanders, who had Anglicized his name...
...Nazi Ha-Ha. But the school that stamps an Englishman for life is not his ''preparatory" school but his "public" school. Philip's was Gordonstoun, a school as young and experimental as Cheam is old and tradition-encrusted. Its founder, a strong-minded German schoolmaster named Kurt Hahn, believed that education should provide "the moral equivalent of war" by facing boys with plenty of hard work, physical danger and a rugged regimen. Philip, whose four sisters had all married German princes, was originally entered at a similar school Hahn had founded in Germany, but his tendency...
Married. Stirling Moss, 28, lean, daring auto-racing ace, first Englishman to win Italy's Mille Miglia; and Katherine Molson, 22, millionheiress daughter of Montreal Brewer F. S. Molson; in London...
...main weight in the scrum will come from Charlie Eaton, a member of last year's football and rugby teams, South African Derek Henderson and Englishman Jim Cooper, both at the Business School, and junior Bill Gill, all of whom are 200 plus...