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Culprits. In North Harrow, England, investigators went to a building showing lights during a blackout, found the lights came from a meeting of air-raid-precaution wardens...
...Since then, wily Old Harrovian Churchill has often quoted Latin in Parliament and, jibing at Harrow's ancient rival, offered to translate "for the benefit of any Old Etonians present...
...Food shops. Harrow had existed 300 years before anyone got the idea that the school itself might make money by selling the between-meals food its boys wanted...
...young one. At his last visit to the school in December 1940, he said: "Herr Hitler, in one of his recent discourses . . . declared that the fight was between those who had been through the Adolf Hitler schools and those who had been at Eton. Hitler had forgotten Harrow, and he had also overlooked the vast majority of the youth of this country who have never had the privilege of attending such schools. . . . When this war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work to establish a state of society where the advantages and privileges which hitherto have...
Though London's suburbs have thickened around it, Harrow school has changed little since young Churchill's time. In Winston Churchill and Harrow it is observed: "To many Old Harrovians the greatest change in Harrow school life in the past fifty years-apart from the advanced curriculum of modern days-is the abolition of private tuck shops."* This occurred 30 years...