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Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow: 600,000 copies...
...Harrow, red-headed young Winston Churchill was last boy in the "third fourth" (the lowest division of the lowest form) for three times as long as any boy in the school. It took him three tries to nudge his way into Sandhurst. At 24, an Army lieutenant, he applied for Oxford, gave up when the examiner demanded a schoolboy's Greek irregular verbs from a British regular officer...
Unhappily, such matters are not well taught at Harrow and Sandhurst, where 41-year-old Brigadier Derek Schreiber, chief of staff to the Governor-General (H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester) was educated. When the Brigadier married fashionable Viscountess Clive last fall his valet, ex-Corporal Ernest Cyril Field, persuaded himself that the marriage would mean an increase in his duties. He asked for a raise. Schreiber declined, Field departed...
...tireless and as careful of the smallest grain," and the intelligence officers "who are usually of notably mild appearance, having been detached from the ordinary Army service because of their clerkly gifts." To set the stage she went clear back to the '80s and the meeting (at Harrow) of young Winston Churchill and young Leopold Amery, when Winston pushed Amery into a pond. She sympathetically followed Amery's career into the respected, conservative Cabinet member he became. Of his wayward elder son she wrote: "John Amery was not insane, he was not evil, but his character was like...
...years this Amery, a charming chap in his cups, had been wrong. Known to his friends as "The Rat," he left Harrow at 16, hurried to Lausanne to do the night spots. After 74 traffic violations had been charged against him, he was barred from England's roads...