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British business has often classed its companies more by the social status of the men at the top than by size, profits or prospects. Eton and the Guards are faultless qualifications, and so is a baronetcy or hereditary peerage. Some Britons believe that directors constitute a gigantic Old Boy network. Last week the British business world was startled by a major corporate change that illustrates a trend in British business: a disestablishmentarianism that is down grading the Old Boys in favor of top managers and directors whose only qualifications are ambition, skill, and a flair for hard work...
PHILIP EVERGOOD-Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd. American-born, English-educated (Eton, Cambridge). Evergood saturates his paintings with biting wit and sharp social commentaries. His sensuous figures are caught in a Rabelaisian revelry of human rapacity and foolishness. Among the oils, watercolors and drawings: a wistful Look Homeward, Marilyn. Through...
...assorted boarding schools, the three Weston children are assembled at a seaside resort where Daddy's musical show, The Moonrakers, is definitely not raking in the cash. Mummy has been dead for years, and Daddy has contrived a living out of a shoestring and the old school tie (Eton) by writing and acting in summer revues. Sample dialogue: "What did you do in the General Strike?" Answer: "I struck a General...
What is it really like to be a cold war spy? A deluge of fictional spy thrillers has done little to answer the question. Now along comes a one-time Eton schoolmaster, David Cornwell, 32, who some three years ago joined Her Majesty's Foreign Office "to get into the swim," and writing under an assumed name seems to have told all in one of the best spy stories ever written. Even if John le Carre's book isn't authentic, nobody except another certified spy can be sure; and it has the merit of sounding chillingly...
...stately slum. A grimy, drafty pile of Victorian granite opposite 10 Downing Street, it has been likened to a provincial Italian museum, a stranded gunboat, a monument to Muddling Through. Yet when the government announced plans last month to demolish the building, traditionalists reacted as if Eton were being nationalized. "Magnificently British!" harrumphed Lord Harrowby. "Representative of our greatest period!" snapped Lord Salisbury...