Word: etonisms
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...seen St. Trinian's become a part of the British public school folklore. His first two cartoon books have both gone through nine printings, and the school itself has appeared in skits in at least three musical revues. Today its bloody playing fields are as famous as Eton's, and its horrible little girls are quite as well known as Tom Brown or Billy Bunter...
Polo in the Streets. At 17, Bobbety was a trainbearer at George V's coronation; thence, he trod a well-worn road: Eton, Oxford (where he and the Prince of Serbia were fined for playing bicycle-polo in the streets), and the Grenadier Guards. Wounded in France, Viscount Cranborne, as Salisbury was known while his father was alive, got a medical discharge and married Betty Cavendish, niece of the Duke of Devonshire...
This is particularly true in Britain, where Adlai Stevenson has made a tremendous hit. Reports one U.S. correspondent: "The British can't understand how a man who didn't go to Eton could have such facility with words, but they love it." The Daily Mail's Don Iddon called Stevenson "dazzling and delightful," adding: "His manner is more British than American, and this could be a handicap [in the U.S.]. Already his harassed enemies are suggesting that Stevenson has an English accent-a most shameful sin." Reported the Daily Telegraph's Malcolm Muggeridge: "He derives from...
...sporadically amusing spoof, Bonzo Goes to College leans almost entirely for its laughs on the mugging of its sawed-off leading man. Looking something like a cross between Mickey Rooney and William Bendix in a porkpie hat, Eton jacket and long trousers and suspenders, Bonzo somehow manages to keep the show going without any visible assistance from writers, director and supporting cast...
Named by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as new board chairman of the British Broadcasting Corp. (at ?3,000 a year): Sir Alexander Cadogan,* 67, Britain's onetime (1946-50) representative to the U.N. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he entered the foreign service ia 1908 when he was 24, in 1938 was appointed Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the BBC his first job will be to choose a director-general to replace Sir William Haley, who is leaving in September to become editor of the London Times. Said Cadogan, who has never seen British television...