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High Aims. The man who had arranged the introduction and done a good deal of the moving was John Christie, 68, owner of the estate and founder of the festival. Christie, a former science master at Eton, inherited his family's fortune ($1,329,000 and 10,000 acres in Sussex and Devonshire) after World War I. Although he plays no instrument himself, Christie is an ardent music lover. In 1931 he married a pretty young singer named Audrey Mildmay, and for her built the perfect miniature opera house on his estate. Christie already had an international festival...
...pollster was available to test the accuracy of Wellington's guess that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, but recent surveys tend to show that Britain is not nearly so sports-minded as she thought she was. London's Economist last week reported that for every Briton who plays a game, two sit watching and 20 go to the cinema. Even more disillusioning: of 191 million Britons who watched sporting matches in 1949, only 2.6% chose cricket...
...customary in those days (until the practice was abolished in the 1860s) for boys leaving Eton to slip ?10 or ?15 to the headmaster. But seniors deemed Most Likely to Succeed were invited to give portraits of themselves instead...
...stately hall of London's Tate Gallery, paintings of 52 proud and pink-cheeked youths went on display last week. On loan from Eton, they were pictures of senior boys done by the best British portraitists of the 18th and early igth Centuries...
...display at the Tate looked boyishly innocent, boyishly arrogant. Their number included four future First Lords of the Treasury, and 21 future earls and dukes. One of history's most famed old Etonians, William Ewart Gladstone, was not present; he was not enough of a standout at Eton. Among those who were...