Word: etonisms
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...seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time I Saw Paris, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Last week Vicky derided Tory Leader R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd as Eton-collared brats whose destructive antics are interrupted by an Ike-faced Santa Claus loaded with oil and dollar...
Died. Lord Quickswood, 87 (formerly Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil), longtime (1895-1906, 1910-37) Tory Member of Parliament and later (1936-44) provost of Eton, best man at the 1908 wedding of his lifelong friend Sir Winston Churchill; of a heart attack; in Bournemouth, England. A High Churchman who deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned...
...migré who fled Austrian rule in Italy after Napoleonic Wars, settled down in England in Lamb House, Rye (later the home of Novelist Henry James) with his bride, a cousin of Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Young Harold Caccia (pronounced Catch-a) went to Eton, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford...
...next few weeks a searching re-examination of a sort to which few other men have ever been subjected outside a court of law. But his deeds are more easily judged than the man, who has always remained curiously elusive. A classical product of a classical British education (Eton, Oxford and the Somme), Eden was an aristocrat by birth, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an unlovable country eccentric whose baronetcy dates back to the 17th century...
Died. Marshall Field III, 63, burly. silver-haired multimillionaire philanthropist, New Dealing magazine (Parade) and newspaper (New York's defunct PM. Chicago's Sun-Times) publisher and rich man's grandson; after brain surgery; in Manhattan. Chicago-born Marshall Field was educated at Eton and Cambridge, never learned to bear comfortably the estimated $168,000,000 he inherited from nail-hard department store Tycoon Marshall Field I, once said: "If I cannot make myself worthy of three square meals a day I don't deserve them." Rich Boy Field won a captaincy and a Silver Star...