Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eton's standards a mere babe in the educational woods, Trinity College (Cambridge) last week had a birthday too. King George VI, a Trinity man himself, showed up for the 400th birthday party. Beneath a Holbein portrait of Henry VIII, who founded Trinity, George raised his glass in a toast: ". . . Like many of you undergraduates, I myself came here [in 1919] straight from the fighting services, and I found in the atmosphere of Cambridge ... a steady and mellowing influence." Others under the influence: Newton, Bacon, Coke, Byron, Dryden, Tennyson...
...Actually, Eton is nearly 507 years old; it was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but Old Etonians were too busy in wartime 1940 to celebrate. *Who probably never said in so many words that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." There were no organized cricket or football playing fields in Wellington's day. He did say: "I really believe I owe my state of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden [of Eton...
Died. Henry George Charles Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 64, sporting, moose-tall sixth Earl of Harewood, wealthy landowner husband of George VI's only sister, Mary, Britain's Princess Royal; of a heart ailment and asthma; in Leeds, England...
...George VI and Elizabeth, home from Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had a new tribute for their scrapbook, painstakingly pieced together by 68-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield (whose services to the Crown earn him roughly $515 a year). He cheerfully reported the world's recognition...
...many a Canadian, the royal title of George VI, "by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India," has long been an unhappy reminder of bygone colonialism. Last week in the House of Commons, Quebec's Eugene Marquis decided the time had come to do something about...