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...Author. From Eton, where he was Head of the School and editor of the school paper, and Oxford, where he was president of the University Dramatic Society and editor of the Isis (under graduate weekly), Peter Fleming got a formal education that well fitted him for a literary editor's desk. But. instead, after leaving Oxford he went to Manhattan, worked in Wall Street for several months during the summer of 1929. He disliked it, went to Guatemala as a railway in spector, then back to London to work for a Cabinet committee, "writing monumental treatises on the tsetse...
...sybaritic image, the boy's sensual dependence on the luxuries the older man supplies. James Dale plays an elderly feline exquisite with a soul of catgut; Laurence Olivier plays a fickle and selfish young toady with an hysteria never seen on the playing fields of Eton...
...courtiers closely watched 21-year-old Ghazi I to see whether he had the will and the talent for juggling. He had been raised by a British governess, had worn Eton suits in Bagdad, played tennis. Mistrustful Arabs hawked wild rumors last month through Irak that he planned to marry a British woman. Last week King Ghazi ended that by stepping into his Throne Room before the members of his family and his Cabinet and betrothing himself to Adviser Ali's second daughter, his own first cousin, Princess Alija. Since she had lived all her life behind a veil...
...Kerry, 19, heir to the West England estates and eleven titles of his father, the sixth Marquess of Lansdowne; when he fell in front of a subway train; in London. He made news three years ago when a London bookie retracted (apparently to save him from expulsion from Eton) a story that he had won $200,000 on the races...
Like many an Englishman since the days of Drake, Talbot Clifton (1868-1928), found England too small, too safe. Scion of an ancient line (beginning in 1060), and inheritor of great estates, he stayed caged only long enough to go through Eton and Cambridge, then set off to live dangerously in far places. Twice before he was 20 he circled the globe, but trotting in tourist tracks was not his idea. He aimed to make his body an instrument of his will. Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson...