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...good time, check in at 11 Harrow House. That is the London address -so this movie says-of the wealthiest, stuffiest and best-guarded diamond exchange in the world. Needless to say, such an institution is likely to cause a certain amount of envy and resentment among those forced to do business with it. Among them you can number a smalltime diamond dealer (Charles Grodin), who is always being put down for violating its dress code or smoking in the waiting room, and a power-crazed tycoon (Trevor Howard) who wants to crack the vaults just for the hell...
...HARROW HOUSE...
...makes clear-does nothing to alleviate his deep existential dread. "She is a very good person," he says with heartfelt gratitude as Bergen volunteers for a particularly dangerous bit of criminality. "This is a very frightened truck," he observes as their robbery vehicle draws up in front of 11 Harrow House to begin the caper. His comment, when Howard's mistress comes to their rescue after Howard has turned against Grodin and troops of bad guys are wildly pursuing him over hill and dale: "I wish I'd been nicer...
Various societies have set about schooling their young for leadership. It is an ambiguous enterprise. Four of the nine British public schools known as the Clarendon Schools (Eton, Harrow, Winchester and Rugby) have produced a disproportionate number of leaders over the years. Someone who passed through the system wrote: "It was assumed that every boy would be in such position as Viceroy of India and must be brought up with this end in view. The government of the country was made an almost personal matter." So too with Oxford and Cambridge, which have produced British leaders for centuries. At work...
Died. Sir Arnold Lunn, 86, pioneering authority on skiing; in London. In the 1920s Lunn invented the modern slalom course, on which the skier executes all types of turns around markers set up in the snow. The Harrow-and Oxford-educated sportsman wrote a galaxy of volumes on skiing and such subjects as Communism, which he abhorred, mountaineering, travel and Catholicism, to which he was a zealous convert...