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...week's end the ministerial list (senior and junior) numbered 68. At least 23 of 30 senior appointees had held public office before, most of them in Parliament. Nine of them are ex-miners. Only two attended Eton, only 13 went to college. Their average age was 60-three years older than the Churchill Cabinet average and 20 years older than the new Labor M.P. average. Outstanding among the new appointments...
These are some of the 200 questions that formed this year's general-knowledge examination at England's Eton College. Etonians, aged 13 to 18, got an hour and a half to answer the questions. The best of them got about 65% correct, while the youngest and dullest...
...want a black eye"). As a professor, he coined a famed phrase when he solemnly urged his students "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most of Pater's fellow esthetes took their rebellion more strenuously. In a series of sensuous, pagan hymns, Eton-educated Poet Algernon Swinburne (he had been expelled from the Royal Arts Club for laying the members' silk hats on the cloakroom floor and hopping on them) "shook [a] small, trembling fist" at the man he named "the Socialist of Galilee": Wilt thou yet take all, Galilean? but these...
...Reader Hemphill is on the right track. Each English Public (i.e., private) School has a special tie which "old boys" may proudly wear. Its colors (e.g., Eton's light blue line on black, Harrow's dark blue with white bands) are often based on the heraldic shield of the founder. As ,a symbol of Toryism, the Old School Tie fell into disrepute a decade ago, was later made a scapegoat for Britain's failure to prepare for war. It has also figured in many a feeble Britticism. Sample: a young Etonian, meeting a shabby fellow wearing...
...conversion (from Eton-schooled playboy to the sugar daddy of New Deal journalism) came with the help of Manhattan's famed psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Zilboorg. But Zilboorg and the pre-Zilboorg era of riding to hounds get no mention in this partly autobiographical book. Field's immense fortune (estimated at $168 million) is dismissed quickly as "the chance of inheritance." But he explains why his New Dealing journalistic twins-Manhattan's adless, experimental PM, and Chicago's unexperimental, ad-crammed Sun-turned out so unalike...