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...room Georgian mansion (begun by grandfather Joe Medill the year Bertie was born) at Cantigny,* his 1,000-acre farm near Wheaton, Ill. Over a frugal breakfast of coffee and juice, he scans the Trib's fat, one-star final and Marshall Field's skinnier Sun, tearing out clippings. He scribbles swift notes on them and stuffs them into his pocket for delivery to his editors. For an hour he strolls Cantigny's gardens and rolling fields (now mostly idle). He has given up riding: "Can't get a groom, dammit," he complains. "There just aren...
Because they had attended prep or "public" (British for private) schools in England, most of the 2,700 were placed in U. S. private schools. Little Britons were surprised to find that most U. S. pupils wear no school uniforms. Skinnier than their U. S. contemporaries, they found the food much better than in British schools, quickly put on weight. They missed tea, got used to drinking milk instead, were delighted with unaccustomed shower baths and pencil sharpeners...