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Conversion at 8. Balliol began as a penance imposed on John of Balliol, a Scottish baron who kidnaped a bishop in a dispute over land, and to make amends endowed a hostel for 16 indigent scholars at Oxford. The resulting college went on to harbor such notables as John Wycliffe and Adam Smith, but its star did not really rise until the advent of Benjamin Jowett, the great classicist who took over as master in 1870, molding men and minds for 23 years...
...families at "Kibbutz Bahan do not quite know what to make of these outward signs of German repentance. "We cannot believe that Germany has changed since the Nazi period," says a youth hostel leader. "Yet we do know that these guests represent new forces in Germany...
...conduct a midnight bed check to make sure that husbands have not climbed back in over the walls. Many marriages do not survive the ordeal. "Once you lose your home," says a harassed welfare worker, "you stand to lose your husband, then your children as well." At one L.C.C. hostel the inmates strap their valuables to their bodies at night. Families are allowed to stay at such hostels only for three months. After that, if they are still homeless, they are often forced to put their children in public boarding homes. London County Council alone has custody...
Drums for Independence. West Africans, who number about 7,000 in London, center on the dreary red brick building of the West African Students Union in Warrington Crescent. East Africans throng the tall, modern Georgian building near Marble Arch called East Africa House, a combination university hostel and West End club. East Africa House is subsidized by the individual colonial governments, but members also pay an annual subscription. The different nationalities generally group together. In the pleasant bar, Moslem Somalis sit in one corner drinking Coca-Cola; a group of Kenyans sip martinis, Tanganyikans have their whiskies, and a Uganda...
When he got to the Orient, Yardley happily found nothing inscrutable about the old China poker hands. Around the table in the Chungking Hostel, he recalls, there were such worldly adversaries as Herr Neilson, the Generalissimo's antiaircraft adviser, "a good-natured writer from TIME Magazine" named Teddy White, and Mickey, a plump, cigar-smoking woman who turned out to be Writer Emily Hahn, in China to do the history of the three Soong sisters. The place was full of poker patsies, and Yardley put to profitable use the carefully calculated rules that make his book a primer...