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...Finest example in England of the late Gothic style, celebrated for its fan vaulting. The chapel was built circa 1446 by Henry VI, who founded Eton at the same time...
...opinions. He sat at the family table, often monopolizing conversation and contradicting distinguished visitors. As he grew older, handsome young Churchill's assurance was taken successively for brashness, arrogance, and what the Sunday Observer called his "natural gifts in the unfashionable art of rudeness." After Eton and 18 months at Oxford, his assurance helped him pull off a seven-month, $12,500, U.S. lecture tour at the age of 19. It also helped him to lose six elections for Parliament from 1935 to 1951; the only time Randolph managed to get into Commons was during the wartime political truce...
Attacking the press fits Randolph's taste and temperament. "I'm a naughty tease," he admitted last week in his 20-room, seven-bath Essex farmhouse, where he lives with his second wife and their daughter, Arabella, 6. (His son Winston II, 15, is at Eton.) "I like to attack rich and powerful people. I like to do things the hard way." In the Spectator, in a signed weekly column for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and by freelancing, Randolph plays his role of gadfly. His cause, and the lusty Churchillian way he fights it, has gained...
...Princess Royal, Margaret's aunt and the daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. ** She is now married to John de Lazlo, the co-respondent in the suit. Her two sons, though awarded to Peter by the court, live with her. The elder boy is at Eton. ***Anthony Eden divorced his first wife, Beatrice Beckett, in June 1950, was married to Winston Churchill's niece Clarissa in a London registry office in August...
Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...