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...Britain. In the outgoing Labor cabinet, only five out of 37 ministers had gone to Eton, Harrow or Winchester, only 15 to Oxford or Cambridge. With Old Harrovian Winston Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton, Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab...
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...Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death...
Nine o'clock came each night before his car swung through Washington's jammed traffic, crossed into Maryland to Oxon Hill, where the Secretary could enter the cool magnificence of his home. In the great Georgian house Welles dined briefly, buckled into his homework. Even in the thick, still heat of a Maryland summer night on the Potomac, Sumner Welles seemed cool. War or peace, he will remain...
...informally coffee-colored, short Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in Washington to get credits for works projects. French-speaking President Vincent, now serving a second five-year term,* was referred to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who gave a stag dinner in his honor at Welles's Oxon Hill, Md. mansion. Mr. Vincent did not get to see Secretary Hull, nor was he officially welcomed with pomp and display. Said one Washington official: "Well, you can't get those five tanks out every...