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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directed at the British public-school system, traditional incubator of British snobs, heroes and statesmen. As part of a program inspired by the labor government, Jack Read (Richard Atten-borough), a kid from the wrong side of the London tracks, is enrolled in one of England's oldest, most snobbish schools. For several reels, while the camera conscientiously explores the virtues and vices of the school system, young Jack gets caned, taunted, snubbed and bullied by his masters and schoolmates. In the end he emerges a successful product of the British public-school system, with a stiff upper...
...made his official debut as conductor, and soon received invitations from all over Europe. Then in 1935, he was appointed head of the Paris Philharmonic, and three years later became the conductor of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, France's oldest and one of the world's best...
They will handle America's oldest student law magazine during its sixty-third year of publication since its founding in 1887. The eight issues per year of the journal are filled with discussions of contemporary legal problems...
Since the oldest alumnus of the Great Books course had been out of college only eight years, none had yet become rich or famous in his own right. Some had chosen business careers-there were an insurance underwriter, an adman, a financial analyst for the Ford Motor Co. But many of the St. Johnnies who had gone to work seemed to have offbeat tastes. One alumnus was producing Chinese films; another had become a ballistics expert; three were fanning in Maryland. There were also an able seaman, an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, a professional Marine...
...National is not the biggest bank in the capital (resources: $29 million), but it is the oldest (est. 1809). Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were once depositors. In the War of 1812, the cashier cagily sneaked the bank's funds out of town the day the British captured the city. Later the bank lent the empty U.S. Treasury $50,000 to help rebuild the White House, which had been burned by the redcoats...