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...TIME, April 8, I read to my surprise "Little Anthony Eden was a healthily snobbish Eton schoolboy in tails, starched collar and high hat every day of the week...
...Eton Bottom-Starvers...
...Starched collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its vulgar but popular name of "Bottom-starver." This was indelibly impressed upon me well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family...
...perhaps I am out of date and in the past 50 years the Eton jacket has sprouted a tail. The latter seems improbable. Things do not sprout so quickly as this in England...
...California at Los Angeles, 2. Crewman Samuel Drury, Harvard University, 3. Shotputter J. M. Baillieu, Magdalen College (England), 4. Tackle Fil Sanford, University of Richmond, 5. Shotputter Jack Torrance, Louisiana State University, 6. Gymnast Rehor, University of Illinois, 7. Pugilist Paul Hartnek, Creighton University, 8. Highjumper A. Waley, Eton College (England), 9. Speedster Ivan Fuqua, Indiana University, 10. Halfback Harry Patch, Villanova College, and 11. Ballcarrier...