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WILLIAM J. MCTAGGART Fulbright Scholar Wadham College Oxford, England...
...autobiography, no one betters the British, who prefer to live in the past and talk about it. Now 69 and Warden of Oxford's Wadham College, Sir Maurice Bowra seems to have spent a lifetime as a classical scholar preparing to write his memoirs. His sentences, too many of them balanced on a median "and," move at the stately pace of an Oxford processional. His assurance is majestic. It assumes that the reader will want to hear everything about him, from his encounter with the novelist Henry James, who asked politely if the young Bowra were still at school...
...Underwear. Their backers, however, were fighting with a vengeance. Behind Lowell, the favorite at 6-4 and acknowledged the better poet of the two candidates, is Wadham College Warden Sir Maurice Bowra, who himself held the chair from 1946 to 1951. Bowra launched his campaign for Lowell last fall, after making, he claims, a gentleman's agreement with Blunden Backer Dr. Enid Starkie to limit the number of nominating signatures for each candidate. "She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with...
...January, Sir Maurice Bowra. 61, warden of Wadham College, author of The Greek Experience, and acting vice chancellor, called a meeting of all "heads of colleges and permanent private halls." The meeting (36 colleges, five of them women's) went down as smoothly as a glass of old port. There was talk of Lord Salisbury, but he, it turned out, had won only a "pass" and not a "first" degree. Lord Attlee had at least been a "second," but at 77 he was getting on. Then someone mentioned the name of tall, suave Sir Oliver Franks, 55, onetime professor...
...life of an extraordinary woman-a life that began in a fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...