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...balance the greener men on the boat Wilde is counting on two of his lighter oars, Dick Timpson and Barry Bingham. Neither has rowed on a varsity boat before, but Timpson, who will start at three, competed for Eton and rowed with Cabot as a freshman last spring. Bingham, like Wilde, is one of the University's best single scullars and raced against Olympic champion Johnny Kelley in a double at the American Henley Regatta in Philadelphia last spring...
...crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier Guards), good military record (wounded three times in World War I), good marriage (the second daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire). To these accomplishments, Macmillan added personal qualities of ability, ambition, independence...
...porticoed ocher pile surrounded by lawns, lake and a line of wind-blown beeches, 254 miles north of London. Anthony Eden was born there in June 1897, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an eccentric country gentleman who detested children and barking dogs with equal enthusiasm. At Eton, Anthony played a straight bat and pulled a respectable oar; then, like so many of Britain's public-school boys of his day, he went off to fight in Flanders...
Lost Generation. Of the 28 members of Eden's Middle Fourth at Eton, nine were killed. With them died the flower of a generation, including two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas.* Anthony, who joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps, at 19 became the youngest adjutant in the British army. In the mud of Ypres, he crawled out under the wire and brought back a wounded sergeant under a hail of German fire. He won Britain's Military Cross. Part of his subsequent appeal to the British electorate stems from Eden's status...
Died. Evie Hone, 62, famed Irish-born stained-glass artist, whose dazzling, angularly primitive windows glitter in some 20 churches all over the British Isles (among the most widely praised: her Crucifixion window in Eton's restored 15th-century chapel-TIME, June 30, 1952); of a heart attack; in Dublin...