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...Eton and Harrow standards, strange things happen on the playing fields of Clayesmore. A small (290 pupils), progressive school in Dorset. Clayesmore believes in strenuous academic fare as well as in teaching its boys to fell trees, lay bricks, mix concrete, build walls, weave baskets. It also likes them to study nature in field and forest. Last week British scientific circles were buzzing over just how far Clayesmore will go. The school had suddenly emerged as a full-fledged authority on the toad...
Most important was the elevation of Harold Macmillan to Minister of Defense, replacing Lord Alexander. A tough-minded Scotsman who dresses with Edwardian elegance, Macmillan, 60, is a member of the publishing Macmillan family. After Eton and Oxford, he served as a Grenadier and was wounded three times in World War I. In World War II he was Churchill's resident minister at Allied headquarters in North Africa, where he became both a valued adviser and a friend of Dwight Eisenhower. A Tory reformer, he has been an outstandingly successful Minister of Housing, getting houses built at the surprising...
Hollywood's Beau Brummell (Stewart Granger) bears little relation to the historical one. George Bryan Brummell was the younger son of Lord North's private secretary. While at Eton he awed a somewhat older Etonian, George Brunswick, for life. Since George happened to be Prince of Wales, Brummell had no difficulty in entering high society, and was soon acknowledged "absolute monarch of the mode." Even the Prince of Wales once "began to blubber when told that Brummell did not like the cut of his coat." But at last the Beau and his patron had a falling-out; Brummell...
...Saratoga Springs, N.Y., everything was breaking right for Horseman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney. In the first two weeks of the Saratoga meeting, his thoroughbreds started in 25 races, were first under the wire three times in a single afternoon, carried his Eton blue and brown silks to victory a total of 14 times...
Behind Whitehall's traditional façcade of Cabinet unity, there were hints of tumult and clash. Sometimes it was handsome Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (b. 1897; educ. Eton and Oxford) versus the tough-minded Marquess of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council (b. 1893; educ. Eton and Oxford); sometimes it was Eden versus Churchill, who was a Cabinet minister before Eden was twelve...