Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve this year, because heavy balloting for two newcomers resulted in a tie for eleventh place. The newcomers: Mamie Eisenhower and Oveta Gulp Hobby, recently appointed boss of the Federal Security Agency in the Eisenhower Cabinet. No. 1 on the list for the tenth year: the Duchess of Windsor...
...home in Paris, the Duke of Windsor dressed up in a velvet jacket and kilt and entertained his friends by singing Getting to Know You from The King and I. Among the enthusiastic guests: onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, and Count Valdemar of Rosenberg, the King of Denmark's cousin (who encored the Duke's song with an exotic solo dance...
Francis Olmsted-Grubbs, fresh from Princeton University, got off to a bad start when he began teaching French at the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn. At his very first class, he caught his feet in a wastebasket and fell flat on his face. Later, the boys, with typical irreverence, began calling him "Fog." But as things turned out, Francis Grubbs soon gave the lie to his nickname. Last week, after 22 years on the faculty, he became the school's headmaster...
...thus automatically became one of the East's most important secondary schoolmen, for Loomis occupies a secure place among the nation's top dozen prep schools. It began in 1912, with $2,170,000 left by five childless members of a wealthy Windsor family named Loomis, who wanted to found a place for students of all races and religions-"that some good may come to posterity from the harvest, poor though it may be, of our lives." Under the first headmaster, Nathaniel Batchelder, the good came quickly. He boosted enrollments from 67 to 320, built...
...finished, he had delved deep into every aspect of history. He could read and all but memorize two books a day. He was said to have known everyone worth knowing and to have read everything worth reading. He was a familiar figure in the great Whig houses, at Windsor Castle and the papal court. He spoke English to his children, German to his wife, French to his sister-in-law, and Italian to his mother-in-law. But in none of these places and languages was Acton fully at home. His story, he said, was "the story...