Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of today's young Europeans prefer the same drinks, dances and music. When French teen-agers began wearing black stockings, it was not long before Oxford undergraduettes and Düsseldorf schoolgirls were sable-calved too. German youth has developed a taste for soft French and Italian cheeses. And all over Western Europe this summer, the popular song was Petite Fleur-composed by a New Orleans clarinetist, recorded by a British jazz band, and bestselling in Germany...
...Love You." The son of a rich Ceylonese public servant whose devotion to the British Crown won him a knighthood in 1907, Banda had long steered a perilous course through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth...
...Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
...general, the British performers were suprisingly inept in the field events. England's two discus men, Arthur Perry and G. R. Northern of Oxford were great hulks of men, but they had trouble coming within 20 feet of the winning toss by Pyle of Yale. On the other hand, the wispy English distance runners ran circles around their larger American opponents. The two-mile was originally planned as a three-mile test, but was shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously...
Another interesting feature of Oxford-Cambridge track was the fact that the alumni of the two schools had formed, not two, but one organization to aid and supervise the teams. This was the Achilles Club, composed of holders of Blues, half-Blues, and Relay Colours in track. Although the Achilles carried on its affairs in an aura of accord, there was no slackening of rivalry between the two universities on the athletic field. The former athletes simply felt that preservation of Oxford and Cambridge track was more important than preserving either Oxford or Cambridge alone. It is an attitude that...