Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founded the Glyndebourne Festival, the home of some of the finest Mozart performances heard anywhere. When World War II interrupted that idyl, Bing took a job as a coupon clerk in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square), stood nightly rooftop vigil as a volunteer fire warden. Eventually, he worked himself up to division manager, "hating every minute of it" except for his rounds to the store's hairdressing salon, where, he recalls dryly, "the atmosphere of hysteria reminded me of opera...
Born Free is a posthumous triumph for Elsa the lioness, one of the queen beasts of her time and now the subject of a lively movie biography that should leave audiences purring with satisfaction. Heroine of two bestsellers by Joy Adamson, wife of a senior game warden in Kenya, Elsa began her well-documented career as an orphan cub, became a 300-lb. lapful of love and affection, but ultimately returned to her wild, natural way of life. The clincher of this zoological success story is that Elsa, once taught by her human protectors how to stalk and kill, remained...
...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...
...Goodhead found Harold Strachan, 40, a bearded art teacher who has served three years as a political prisoner, guilty of building an "edifice of lies" about prison brutality. To improve its case against Strachan, the government called 56 witnesses, confiscated defense documents, arrested five defense witnesses-including a prison warden-thereby intimidating most of the rest. Sentence: another 21 years of immaculate confinement...
...about traditions, plummy in accent, and, above all, delighting in pomp. Sir Robert literally clanks with honors. He is Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Privy Counsellor, Companion of Honour, Queen's Counsel, and three months ago he became the first non-Englishman to be appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, an order that entitles him to fly a blue, yellow and red flag depicting Dover Castle and rates him a 19-gun salute in the five ports for which the order was named...