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Among the best of the "open" Borstals is Lowdham Grange, near Nottingham. Designed for backward delinquents of 18 and 19, Lowdham has no locks and bars (except for two small punishment rooms). In their blue shorts and jackets, with house neckties of red, blue or yellow, the Lowdham boys might almost be mistaken for public school products. Housemasters get to know the boys individually, appoint house leaders and captains to keep order. The boys learn such things as cooking, shoe-repairing, painting, reading...
...English art has vanished more completely than that of the Nottingham alabastermen. Once, throughout Europe, their work was literally worshiped; today, London's man-in-the-street finds it less familiar than Congo carvings, Chinese jade, or Henry Moore's pinheaded women. Now a wealthy U.S. expatriate, Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, has set out to remind England of its alabastrine past...
When the Black Death swept England in 1348, it was the Nottingham alabaster men who supplied the new-found piety of the survivors with miniature bas-reliefs and statuettes of the Passion, Thomas à Becket, the lives of the saints, and the bleeding head of John the Baptist (see cut). The panels were carved from soft, creamy alabaster quarried at Tutbury and Chellaston Hill, then were painted, gilded, and generally built into wooden boxes with hinged doors for private worshipers to part...
Combining as they did the sparkling intimacy of a lady's jewelry box and (at their best) the monumental force of Gothic cathedral sculpture, Nottingham alabasters were sought after from Italy to Iceland-until "idolatry"-hating Oliver Cromwell...
Last week at Nottingham's University College, the two Americans argued that government should not step in to provide full employment. One Nottingham debater clinched victory by tartly observing: "The question is not in most advanced countries considered a debatable point." Said ex-Lieut. Norman Temple, back near his wartime bomber base: "We just couldn't sell free enterprise to Britain...