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Bertie was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. His first tutor, Eton's Henry Birch, was ordered to report in detail on the little boy's failings. When, instead, Birch became fond of Bertie, he was sacked. Birch's successor, Frederick Gibbs, had everything that the creation of a problem child demands. He kept "story books of all kinds" out of Bertie's reach, reported regularly that the frustrated little boy was "excited," "disobedient," "very angry," "rude," "half silly." Bertie responded, complained Gibbs, by "throwing stones in my face...
Timpson, who rowed number three oar this season, is a graduate of Eton...
...swept for Queen Victoria) and continued by his father (who swept for Edward VII), held the royal warrant for sweeping Windsor Castle's 300 chimneys; of pneumonia; in Windsor, England. With a staff of three (including his son, who will continue the family trade), Kite also swept Eton College and the Queen Mother's royal lodge...
Enter, Marx. In A Question of Upbringing, Author Powell created a narrator, Nicholas Jenkins, who went to a school suspiciously like his own (Eton), and at first blink the book might have been dismissed as just another clever young man's attempt to settle scores with his old school. But Powell, at 50, still writes of young men like a young man-one who has mercifully lived down his youth. Narrator Jenkins has a remarkably good ear, and records middle-and upper-class conversation with comic precision. And he is presented as a descendant of that Captain Jenkins about...
...Brother Adlai is the kind of book that might give a campaign manager a few uneasy moments. Some may well be disturbed by the recollection of young Adlai in an Eton collar-though it is carefully explained that he did not like it. And yet, on the whole, Mrs. Elizabeth ("Buffie") Stevenson Ives. wife of Career Diplomat Ernest Ives (now retired), has managed to avoid both sisterly gush and campaign-year platitudes. Author Ives was helped by a professional magazine writer. Hildegarde Dolson, but the book shows an authentic freshness. Buffie also displays a wry humor, as when she tells...