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...passed regularly from father to son except in one case. Viscount Elveden's father was killed in World War II, and today's incumbent took over at 24 from an aging grandfather. Although Guinness became a public company in 1886, it is still family-controlled. Along with Eton-and Cambridge-educated Elveden, eight other Guinnesses sit on the board. Like the rest of Ireland, Guinness people do their duty by the company. Workers are allowed two free pints of stout each day. At board meetings, by long tradition, a silver tankard of Guinness stout is set in front...
Truth & Consequences. Keynes was born the year Marx died (1883) and died in the first full year of capitalism's lengthy postwar boom (1946). The son of a noted Cambridge political economist, he whizzed through Eton and Cambridge, then entered the civil service. He got his lowest mark in economics. "The examiners," he later remarked, "presumably knew less than I did." He entered the India Office, soon after became a Cambridge don. Later, he was the British Treasury's representative to the Versailles Conference, and saw that it settled nothing but the inevitability of another disaster. He resigned in protest...
...official news: 16-year-old Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will become one of Timbertop's "young old boys" in February. There had been rumors that the prince might transfer from Scotland's Gordonstoun School, and, while royalty is something special at "Australia's Eton," wealthy boys from throughout the world are commonplace there, and the slushies* are pretty blase about such things...
...desirable for him to meet ordinary run-of-the-mill Australians," sniffed Douglas Broadfoot, an official of the New South Wales Teachers Federation. "Leaders of the government have been seriously remiss in not advising the Queen more accurately. Prince Charles might just as well stay in England and attend Eton as come to Australia and go to Geelong Grammar...
...traditions of British politics, Edward Heath has no business being where he is today. Some Tory leaders did not go to Eton, but none went to a grammar school on a scholarship, as did the burly Kentishman with the rumbling laugh and the steely blue eyes. Some were born untitled, but none the son of a carpenter, like Ted Heath. Some Tories were chosen leader at an earlier age, but none since Disraeli in 1849 at the age of 45, a mere four years younger than Heath today. By all the odds of British politics, Edward Richard George Heath will...