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...England's Eton is to tutor England's Establishment, which is to say that a man had better respect the customs. Headmaster Robert Birley, who took over in 1949, seemed at times a bit rebellious. To the shock of Pop, the school club with old boys in high places, Birley opened Eton's doors to a few lads from the lower classes. Last year, when Birley was passed over for a knighthood, the London Sunday Telegraph blamed the "Pop lobby." This summer Birley will quit with a year yet to go on the usual 15-year tenure...
Last week Eton named his successor...
...pillar of the City of London's select financial clique and a graduate of Eton and Cambridge, Geoffrey Cecil Eley, 58, seemed a most unlikely candidate to outrage his peers by nationalizing a private steel company. Yet that, in effect, is what Eley did last week when Richard Thomas & Baldwins, Britain's only remaining nationalized steel company, won its fight to take over privately run Whitehead Iron & Steel. R.T.B.'s chairman for four years, Eley moved into action with government approval when the rival steel firm of Stewarts & Lloyds tried to take over Whitehead-a move that...
...about him, there are a few small redeeming flaws in his essential oneness with the desert. His Arabic is, well, shocking, and he is studying to improve it. He is the son of a rich lumber dealer, who sent him to Cairo's Victoria College, a properly English Eton on the Nile, where he captained the association football club. French was spoken at home...
Never in Public. His name was Harry Gerguson alias Arthur Wellesley alias Count Gladstone alias Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, cousin and occasionally half brother of Nicholas II, last Czar of all the Russias. After preparing at Eton, he had been to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Heidelberg, Oxford and Cambridge. Since, in fact, he was born in the New York area of indeterminate parentage, he always refused to speak Russian in public. But he was scrupulously elegant, with a camel's hair accent and a mill-racing brain. He lived on both coasts of North America and made occasional...