Word: cheltenham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real breadwinner, of course, is his alter ego, Nicholas Blake, creator of Nigel Strangeways and other shrewd detective heroes, who was himself created in 1935 to finance a repaired roof over the Day-Lewis home at Cheltenham. Day-Lewis has kept increasingly comfortable ones overhead ever since, including the 18th century home in Greenwich, where he now lives with his second wife and their two children...
Phillips Andover Academy and Groton both qualified for the quarter-finals of the Prince Elizabeth Cup for schoolboy eights. Groton won its second-round heat from Eton by three lengths, while Andover easily subdued Cheltenham College...
...Like sturdy tweed and good Scotch, the nanny has been exported to the whole world. From Brighton and Cheltenham and Tunbridge Wells she has gone forth in her sensible shoes to teach the English way to King Hussein, ex-King Farouk, Prince Rainier, and the daughters of the King of Denmark. So ubiquitous was her kind, in fact, that former French Premier Georges Bidault once bitterly complained: "Too many important Frenchmen have been given an inferiority complex for life by being brought up by English nannies...