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...While the average British director is 61, energetic Hyman is 42, and his staff includes a company director of 27 and a mill manager of 25. "I want to attract the same class of mind that goes into the Treasury or Foreign Office," says Hyman. "We have some with Eton and Guards backgrounds, and many with grammar school education. We're a true meritocracy...
Macmillan had reached back over years of blurring class lines to present Britain with a belted earl of a Prime Minister, an elegantly casual product of the cricket wickets of Eton, a toothy, grouse-shooting, extremely U member of the Establishment. Facing elections, he had placed his Conservative Party in the hands of a member of the House of Lords who has not had to run for elective office since he inherited his title twelve years...
Honorably Ineligible. Home's father was a cheerful, absent-minded nobleman of the Wodehouse breed-the sort that would take potshots at hares from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with...
...After Eton, where his headmaster described him as the most unambitious boy he had ever encountered, Home went to Oxford's aristocratic Christ Church,* where he scraped by with a third in history. He was interested in the family's "political blood"-Britain's great reforming Prime Minister Earl Grey was his paternal great-grandfather -and was elected to Parliament in 1931 from the depressed mining district of South Lanark. "It seemed rather stodgy just to stay at home and live on your money and look after your estates," he explains. "It would have been...
Died. Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 52, Eton-produced British diplomat who, with his colleague Donald Maclean, was found to be a top Soviet spy after their sensational 1951 flight to Russia; of heart disease; in Moscow. A slovenly, hard-drinking homosexual, less effective at undercover work than the fastidious Maclean, Burgess turned left at Cambridge, passed official secrets while in the foreign service both from London and Washington. He split with Maclean in exile, avoided Russians and defiantly sported his old school tie, but it was left to Maclean to eulogize him, as a band blared the Internationale...