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None of this means that "learn, learn, learn" is about to supplant "fight, fight, fight" on U.S. campuses. From Anchors Aweigh to All Hail Alaska, the college song is still uniquely American. Britons save their tears for school songs like Harrow's Forty Years On. Oxbridge has s no official songs whatever. Germans I and Frenchmen sing of beer and wine...
...sort that would take potshots at hares from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion...
...passport. At first, he found postwar Britain a bleak place. His English was poor, and he labored as kitchen helper, insurance agent and black marketeer. He made his bid for fortune in the early 1950s by borrowing $2,500 to buy a lodging house near London's Harrow Road. The house cost so little because seven of its eight rooms were occupied by tenants protected by rent control and immune from eviction. Rachman rented the one empty room to a party of eight West Indian musicians who were encouraged to hold nightlong parties and raise hell; they...
...came to Chief Tory Whip Martin Redmayne's Commons office with his solicitor. He was confronted by Redmayne, Tory Chairman Iain Macleod, Minister without Portfolio William Deedes, Attorney General Sir John Hobson and Solicitor General Sir Peter Rawlinson. Two of Profumo's interrogators had been at Harrow with...
Coexistence. Of noble Italian descent, John Dennis Profumo had every qualification to reach the Tories' top ranks: Harrow and Oxford, fine war record, brains, drive, and a beautiful wife, Movie Actress Valerie (Great Expectations) Hobson. Together, the Pro-fumos were weekending at Cliveden, famed country estate of Lord and Lady Astor, when they were introduced to Christine in 1961. Also present: Stephen Ward, who had a cottage on the place. Thereafter, Valerie stayed home while Jack visited Christine at Ward's flat in Wimpole Mews. What the War Minister never knew was that Christine had another regular visitor...