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...Queen never travels without cases of Malvern spring water from the hills of Worcestershire, a monogrammed electric kettle for the royal cup of China tea, her own kid lavatory seat and an attache case filled with the homeopathic remedies that her granny reared her on. An ever present handbag (she would sooner go outside without shoes than leave it be hind) is her security blanket: it gives her something to do with her hands and holds her glasses and makeup...
Finn's absence at center halfback means more than the loss of a team leader. The Malvern, Penn. native anchors the defense that has tallied five shutouts and allowed only seven goals in its nine outings this year...
...Finn--himself the mayor of the Finn hometown of Malvern, Pennsylvania--has every reason to be proud of his youngest daughter, who has won All-Ivy and All-New England laurels for her skilled field hockey and lacrosse play in her two years as a starter at Harvard, and who was selected by her hockey teammates this season to serve as co-captain of the squad as a junior...
Born in London in March, 1909, Patterson attended Malvern College, England, and the University of Chicago...
After 3½ years at Malvern College in England, he entered Yale in the class of 1941. Says Poet Reed Whittemore, Angleton's college roommate and still a close friend: "He was quite British in his ways, though he had treasured his Middle Western accent. He was a mixture of pixiness and earnestness, very much at home in Italian literature, especially Dante, as well as the fine points of handicapping horses. He was an owl; he stayed up late, talking, reading or playing poker...