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...Playing Fields of Eton...
Colonel Charles Ralph Bingham, D. S. O., son of the Honorable Sir Cecil Bingham, is a product of British tradition. He went to Eton and in 1914 became A. D. C. to his father in France. Back home from war, he joined Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, but later abandoned him. He yachted in summer and sat with equally well-bred companions in the posh Carlton Club in winter. In the best Tory tradition he represented the cult of the old school tie. When World War II began he was made commander of Officer Cadet Training Unit No. 168. Last week...
James Stuart graduated from Eton into World War I, later was First Equerry to the Duke of York, now George VI. He succeeds Captain David Margesson (who three weeks ago became Secretary of State for War) and has more power in his party than ever Jim Farley wielded, for he not only controls the party treasury and can refuse to back recalcitrant party members in elections but he hands out plums by recommending knighthoods and peerages for the constituents of good M.P.s...
...Eton College (prep school), on whose playing fields the Battle of Waterloo was said (by the Duke of Wellington) to have been won, was bombed last month. When Etonians explored the ruins, they made a tingling discovery: the famed old "birching block," over which headmasters had birched (i.e., flogged) boys' bottoms for generations, was missing. Although many an Etonian was disposed to let well enough alone, antiquarians searched diligently, eventually found the birching block's remains in a bomb crater. Last week they reverently picked up the pieces, installed them in the Eton Museum...
...campus are no priests or monks; 77% of them have gone on to non-Catholic colleges. Headmaster Hume (known to Canterburians as "the Doc") makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a Canterburian puts on a dark blue or grey suit, white shirt and black shoes (Eton collars and patent-leather pumps were discarded about ten years ago) for tea. Canterbury boys get no demerits, but for good behavior they get two extra days off at Christmas and Easter vacations. Few Canterburians misbehave, for few care to provoke Dr. Hume's anger, his great, booming voice...