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Husky and handsome, he was born in a primitive jungle hamlet, raised in the bush. He won scholarships to Achimota College, the Gold Coast's "Eton," was sent to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania to study religion and anthropology. Back in the Gold Coast in 1950, Nkrumah quickly gained power in the anticolonial Convention People's Party, became the most powerful African in the colony when his party swept 31 out of the 38 elective seats in last year's election...
...always tried to be ordinary and unobtrusive: even his humor has been an exercise in humility, leading some to undervalue his serious work. But being unobtrusive was always hard, for, even at Eton and Oxford, he bagged his limit in prizes. His father was Bishop of Manchester. His brother was editor of Punch. Knox came from the old governing class and tried loyally to be the silent and sensible Briton that Eton and Oxford existed to produce. In 1912 he was ordained a priest in the Church of England; in 1917 he entered the Roman Catholic Church...
...Westerners recently to get a peek behind the Iron Curtain is a lanky young London banker named John Lindsay Eric Smith. Scion of a family who have been bankers since 1688, Smith went to Eton and Oxford, served in the fleet air arm, and is now a managing director of Coutts' bank. Excerpts from his report on Russia in The National & English Review, a Conservative monthly...
...London's Tory newspapers happily noted last week that the old school tie had come into its own again in Britain. In the outgoing Labor cabinet, only five out of 37 ministers had gone to Eton, Harrow or Winchester, only 15 to Oxford or Cambridge. With Old Harrovian Winston Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton, Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab...
...Leader of the House of Commons, a taxing triple assignment. A great -great-grandson of the last British Governor of Maryland, Eden has a proper Tory background -county aristocracy, Eton. Oxford (high honors in Oriental languages), a good army regiment, Whitehall and May fair. Respected for his integrity and his success as Britain's Foreign Secretary during the war, liked because he never gets personal or partisan, he has raised high hopes but has not yet fulfilled them. His critics consider him uninspiringly conventional...