Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Child Frealc. She and her husband both come from Walton-on-Thames* in Surrey, and have known each other since 1947, when he was 13 and she twelve. Julie, whose mother and stepfather were musical vaudevillians, was a professional singer even then...
...voice rang with the dauntless curiosity of an old man facing the diminishing future. "This is my final word," said William Maxwell Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook, at his 85th birthday party (TIME, June 5). It was, indeed, his valedictory. Last week at Cherkley, his gloomy Victorian estate in Surrey, the Beaver's heart, which had endured so long despite bouts with asthma, sciatica and gout, finally failed...
Dirk Bogarde was 44 last week. He is a bachelor, and lives a most unpublic life. He has a stately manor house on 16 acres in Surrey½ hour commute from London. Owls hoot in the woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...
Despite their adaptibility, however, lawyers have trouble keeping up on their law once they come to Washington. Surrey hasn't read a case "for quite awhile," and he lets his large staff handle the technical questions. At the Law School, his opinions on legal questions were quite consistant. In Washington, Surrey has had to consider political feasibility, a consideration which squashed many of the hopes he had for major tax reform in the present Congressional session...
There was one aspect of life in Washington upon which all five former professors could agree: social life in the nation's Capital. Cox avoids it by living in Virginia; Surrey avoids it to have time for his work; and McNaughton stays away on general principle. Chayes attends the mandatory diplomatic functions but complains silently. Bell, who is probably forced to appear at more events than others, defers to feminine judgment. "Ask any of our wives. They all want to return to Cambridge...