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Education: Christ Church, Oxford, where he won the presidency of the Oxford Union debating society, co-founded the university Conservative Club. In 1929, aged 25, was defeated by Socialist in a hopeless try for a Welsh mining-district seat, went on debating tour of 48 U.S. campuses, where he good-naturedly upbraided Americans for having pulled out of the Empire...
...nourishing a well-developed dislike for his allotted chores on the Roberts farm near Springfield, Ill.; everything came second to learning how to play games-basketball, baseball, anything at all. "He never had a ball out of his hand," his mother Sarah Roberts remembers. "Ah well," says his proud Welsh father Tom. "He could've done a lot worse...
Today the Robin Robertses live on Robin Hood Road in the Philadelphia suburb of Meadowbrook with their two children (Robin Jr., 5, and Danny, 2) and a 3½-year-old Welsh corgi presented to Robin by an upstate New York fan. Mary Ann, who dutifully goes to Connie Mack Stadium when Robin is pitching a home game and turns on radio or TV when he performs on the road, still makes no pretense of being a baseball buff. She admits to knowing precious little about how the other players are doing, is sure only that so far, this season...
...jumped Aneurin Bevan-Nye, the fiery Welsh rebel whose basic anti-Communism is too often obscured by his demagogic anti-Americanism. Shaking a finger at Khrushchev, ruddy-faced Nye answered: "Your view of who is an enemy of the working classes is not our view. Conduct an inquiry into this matter, or, better still, let them all come to England, where we are quite willing to receive them...
Reed's bounce is built in. The second son of a Welsh-born lumber company accountant in Philadelphia, he was a hard-plugging student and star footballer in high school. He won a scholarship to Princeton, but had to drop out when his father lost his job. He got an accounting job by day, went to Philadelphia's Wharton School at night. At 29, he went to American Express as assistant to the comptroller, rose through the ranks, until in 1944 he became president...