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Starting in May, Charles, whose titles include Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, will take up a regimen that begins daily at 7 a.m. with a cold shower followed by an empty-stomach sprint around the school grounds. Along with Gordonstoun's 400 other boys, among them the scholarship sons of dockers and fishermen, he will chop wood, build pigsties, sail, climb cliffs. The staple food is boiled potatoes at lunch and supper, and the school insists on "N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun...
Sail Away (by Noël Coward) is carbon-copy Coward. All it needs is a carbon-copy audience from the dated musical comedies of the '20s and '30s. Sample dialogue: Englishman, in tweeds and monocle: "I've just found a cockroach in my bath." Steward: "I trust it was a British cockroach...
...strong nonconformist influence on him through an aunt who had married an Englishman and followed the Quaker way of life. He never joined a political party and so, at one time or another, was reviled by both radicals and conservatives. Yet in his job as an assistant steward on the vast estates of the wealthy Perovsky and Naryshkin families, he traveled through his country so extensively and perceived so much that Gorky called him "the truest Russian of all Russian writers...
...bottle of Coca-Cola in ice water." They thought it would be a cinch-all they would need was a thermometer and a stop watch. But they found out differently. "It depends on whether you shake the bottle," says Mollö-Christensen. "Remember that little twist the wine steward gives the bottle when he puts it in a bucket? It speeds the cooling...
Died. Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 91, the ninth Earl of Shaftesbury, senior member of the House of Lords, a World War I brigadier who served as a private in World War II because his age barred him from a commission, and who, as longtime Lord Steward for King George V, was in charge of everything from giving out alms to keeping the peace among members of the Royal Household staff; after a short illness; in Salisbury, England...