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...fearing Church of Englander, schooled at aristocratic Eton, Sir Esmond does not lie under slightest suspicion of partiality for the Reds. He and the First Secretary of his Embassy prepared the report after "very wide inquiries in religious quarters." At the British Foreign Office officials expressed well-bred annoyance that this secret state paper had fallen into even the trustworthy Guardian's hands but made no suggestion that it was not genuine...
JOURNEY'S END-How the playing fields of Eton influence trench warfare...
Married. George Newell Armsby, 53, financier (Bancamerica-Blair Corp., California Packing Corp.); and Colette Touzeau, 36, daughter of Henri Touzeau, onetime French master at Eton College, England; in Glendale, Calif. The honeymoon : in Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille's mountain cabin...
...Author. Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he is tall, pale, has thin lips, restless hands; unassailable socially, he delights in flouting convention. The English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other...
...from being a trustee of the estate, has had no hand in the management of the store. Nine years ago he took part in the formation of Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Co., now Field, Glore & Co., potent Chicago banking house, with an office also in New York. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he spends most of his time far from Chicago. A great love of horses made him join the cavalry during the War, and enabled him to become a director of the Saratoga Association, over whose track many of his horses have raced. At Lloyd's Neck, Huntington...