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...Britain's state-supported schools; the report suggests that some of the money should go instead to enlarging the faculty. In effect, Oxford prefers to continue educating boys from private preparatory schools and leave the education of others to the red brick colleges and such new universities as Sussex and Essex. All of this lends credence to a recent howl by an undergraduate magazine that Oxford is "a piece of the medieval world in which few earn their keep and in which idleness, frivolity, conceit, class prejudice, petty politics and corruption are rife...
...known in the U.S. as the rhetorician who slew the dragon of verbosity, first with his bestselling plea for simple language, Plain Words (1954), and last year for his revision of the classic Fowler's Modern English Usage, which preserves its original charm; of cancer; in Midhurst, Sussex...
...science winners are Benjamin M. Friedman '66 of Dunster-House and Louisville. Ky.. and James H. Kettner '66 of Adams House and Saginaw. Mich. Friedman will study economics at Kings College at Cambridge while Kettner plans to study history at the University of Sussex...
...least $7,000,000; now he lives in a $700,000 house and enjoys gambling $100,000 a weekend on college football games. Even those who are less flamboyant like to live well: John Diebold has a 16th century living room that was transported stick by stick from Sussex, England; Pittsburgh Theater Magnate Ernest Stern, 45, owns two dozen antique cars and a 53-ft. yacht...
...failed to change significantly after six years, the choirmaster advised him to quit lest he permanently injure his vocal cords. He had a brief fling with the local opera company but left because the director made him rehearse with the ladies' chorus. He took a job in a Sussex furniture store and married the owner's daughter...