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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much Housing. While such strides were being made, culture was getting its attention, too. R. K. Mellon was having Carnegie Museum scrubbed and painted and rearranged. Mellon and his friends had contributed a total of some $28 million for artistic and educational projects...
...habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
Tacks & Taxes. How much longer such schools as Winchester could keep sailing, without at least changing their traditional tack, was the question. It costs ?276 a year for Britain's heavily taxed middle-and upper-class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...
Scholars & Gentlemen. Whatever the answer, English educators expect that more & more boys from the state schools are going to crash the hallowed gates of the public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part of the school as its rich educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change...
With the boys, T-shirts and open collars are still popular, but almost everywhere it is becoming fashionable to wear the shirts tucked in. Argyle socks, preferably knitted by a "connected" girl, are much in demand. In Seattle, there is even a real effort to keep shoes shined and hair cut. One new fad in the East: black belts buckled in back...