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...perfect child," he confides to one biographer, "never spoke, never cried!" But in this pose-for Beecham can assume a pose quite naturally-he would no doubt choose to forget that his student days at Oxford came to a sudden end after 18 months and that the warden of Wadham College is then reported to have said, "Mr. Beecham! Your untimely departure has perhaps spared us the necessity of asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Personality | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Fellow and tutor of history at Oxford's Wadham College, he had worked with Winston Churchill on Churchill's monumental life of Marlborough. Right after Munich, he joined the army. He was the first officer to parachute into Yugoslavia,* worked so closely with Tito that the two were once wounded by the same bomb explosion. After the war, a lieutenant colonel with a D.S.O., he returned to Wadham, also began helping Churchill with his famed war memoirs. Last week 36-year-old Bill Deakin took over as Warden of St. Antony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Warden of St. Antony's | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Tonight's symposium will deal in particular with the question, "Is the Novel Dying?" Harry T. Levine '33, professor of English, will lead off the discussion with a general survey of the subject, and divide the topic into three geographical areas. C. M. Bowra, Wardon of Wadham College, Oxford, will speak on the English novel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discussion Tonight May Set Off Eliot Symposium Series | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...English scholar is Warden of Wadham College and a professor of Poetry at Oxford University. He is speaking here this year under the auspices of a fund established by Charles C. Stillman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowra Talks on Poe At New Lecture Hall | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

Cocil M. Bowra, warden of Wadham College and professor of Poetry at Oxford University, will lecture on "Prometheus Unbound" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. This is one of a series of talks on "The Romantic Imagination" being given by Professor Bowra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowra to Speak | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

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