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"PREP" SCHOOL
FOR SANDHURST
By J. W. Taylor
rooms
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HEN the mysterious so that he could go unseen to be enrolled in the Army before fifth Duke of Port nearby Worksop whenever "entering, but his parents will be land, a lonely self- Incidentally, when he choss to that he will be regarded as a Journey could not be avoided. required to sign an undertaking isolated man, built
farther. до
aficed, such as candidate for Sandhurst and, it series of London, his carriage, an extraordinary
the sun successful, will serve at: icast" underground
and blinds carefully drawn, used to five years as a regular officer on be hoisted on a railway truck the active list, and membership tunnels at enormous ex a Worksop.
of the Combined Cadet Force pense at his country seat of
contingent will be obligatory. Welbeck Abbey a hundred years ago, he little guessed to what use the rooms would eventually be put.
They are to become class rooms, ♫ gymnasium and 1 laboratory for o new boarding
Then he constructed underground ballroom,
a vast During part of the normal school
of feel, sultes of moms, a long military and civil establishments 174 by holidays the boys will visit both conservatory, the whole linked to supplement the instruction by corridors, along some ot which run narrow gauge tracks given at the College,
which were used to bring food on waggons from the kitchen the dining rooms. The rooms
school the Army is setting up all have skylights, and at night next year to provide sukable cam- didates for regular commissions they were illuminated by theu- in the technical
CURRICULUM
THERWISE, the college
will
be run on the
board- as other corps. It wil sands of gas Jets, now super- same lines.
intricate electric ing schools, and there will offer a free, two-year education sedex by an
the
the
on light system. The duke also be no class distinction whatever
7
that
although he did curriculum will be tied in with
mashmatics.
be
1
37A
London Express Service
The vast underground ballroom of Welbeck Abbey, which will be used as a gymnasium.
week
selected from
parece
How it must look from No 10
By William Barkley
THE result of the Ameri-
THE
can election means a grent deal to Mr Churchill. It was a question mark in his mind in regard to foreign polley when he pre- pared his speech for the new session of Parliament.
Ile said in that speech: "We will no doubt have a clearer view of the whole situation after the result of the election is known."
The Socialist Party burst into laughter." "Which elec tion?" they cried. "Do you mean Wycombe?"---for it was polling day there too.
Mr Churchill gazed at them in estonishment. It looked as if he had forgotten all about. Wycombe.
He eald: "I mean the election. in the U.S."
NEXT: A MEETING
WHEN Mr Winston Churchili
W
was in America in March 1046 he went to Richmond, Virginia, with General Eisen-" hower.
They drove through crowded streets side by side in an open car. There were as many cries of "Good old Ike" as of “Good old Winnie." Mr Churchill ud- dressed the Gentlemen of Vir- ginia, as the members of the State legislative chamber are called.
"
He made them a fine speech but they were not satisfied. They sal for several minutes clapping hands.
in the House of Commons It fa against the rules to clap
the hands. In
Chamber of Virginia It is against the rules to make any other kind of demonstration.
50 there they sat for several L minuten clapping hands. was their way of saying, after hearing Mr Churchill: "Now we want lke."
General Elsenhower sat sumy beside Mr. Churchill on the dais, making no acknowledg- ment. As the
clapping con- tinued he rose to his feet.
He made them a fine speech too. It was one sentence.. All he said was: "Gentlemen,"":{"am here today and proud
to bo here today as side-de-camp to Winoton Churchill."
He sat down. It was Chur- chilla day and Eisenhower was not the man to abate or steal his glory.
FINALLY: A QUOTE
CHARACTER
library, not be required to make any Pembroke College, Cambridge, growing shortage of officers in A FAVOURITE
quote
shows
n'
Eisenhower
certain
of
with
fine
got
to 75 boys of about 18 years of installed central heating. The in selecting suitable boys. The- age from the Midlands, the insta North of England and Scotland his batt
n his best to shun his acquájn- that of Sandhurst and stress every year who wish to go to dances, he was
on the
placed on Royal Military
Асайсту,
on telence and torms friendly
with the hun-
board, Sandhurst. Special considera- dreds of workmen employed on
Tuition tion will be given to boys who his crazy.
and maintenance will be would normally have to leave each man receiving a gift of a receive four
building enterprises, provided free and boys will each number of serving officers is his favourite sport and he is school
shillings at that age in order to donkey and an umbrella so as pocket money, but contribution concerned with the staff of the
those especially an experienced ocean racer, earn their living.
Welbeck Abbey,
to make travelling through the towards living expenses will be erected on
college,
The purpose behind the Col- charged according to
lege Is to
who altract boys site of an 11th century park more comfortable. monastery and
means. Where the parents" The headmaster is Mr D. A. would not normally consider standing in
income is less than three hun- Rickards, M. A. who was edu making the Army their career 3,000-acre estate which was
dred pounds a
make year, they will cated at Sedbergh School and and help
good the once part of Sherwood Forest,
Tichfield has been in the bands of the T
wood-panelled contribution, and the maximum where he read Natural Science Its
technical dukes
of Portland for over
corps. There is three centuries. The extensive walls,
and will be 30 a term. Areplace
and
blue
for cross little difficulty in finding officers Identity thought between, grounds, with a Inke 11⁄2 miles many famous paintings,
country and the three miles. for infantry regiments or the the two, men: "If a man can't long,
The playing fields adjoin the He Italian sunk garden and and
Chapel, the
containing Army and there will be many Blundell's; during the war
is now a housemaster at Rogat Amoured Corps, but the get what he wants to say on a magnificent trees *mve a rare glant Ionle columns of plak opportunities
he problem is acute in the techni- single page then 11 lim't worth for sport. There beauty, but the mansion has marble, some outstanding are will be sailing
and rowing on served in the Duke of Welling- col branches and especially in reading."
ton's Regiment and' at the close the singularly unattractive frontage work and a remarkable
Royal Electrical Inter the lake, as lovely a cricket of hostilities WHE a and is chiefly remarkable for its piece, were built by a
Lieut- Mechanical Engineers where Those words almost duplicate any college could Colonel Instructor at the Staff the Army is in direct
famous wartime superb Library
com- Churchill's and Chapel generation. These will now form ground as and the, results of the Fifth part of Welbeck
have, tennis and squash courts, College, ond College
Camberley. Yachting petition with Industry,
directive on memoranda. coat, asset to the lege will run a rugby XV. Duke's astonishing eccentricity. should be
a swimming pool, and the Col- character of new school.
The board of governors is ture for the
explained representative of education-- shy and the THIS excessively
Home uni- Mojor-General (re- Vice-Chancellors of morbid recluse, who locked tired) C. de Lisle Gaussen, CB, verslties, headmasters of public, himself away in a few rooms,
who was Engineer-in-Chief secondary and gromniar schools and had two letter-boxes on his india in 1947, and Deputy En--and technical colleges and has auter door, for messages and gincer-in-Chief War Office from representatives of industry and mall in' and 'out, first built a 1048 to 1949.
trade unions, one distinguished tunnel, wide enough for two Unlike the Royal Naval Collega retired officer (General Sir carriages to pass 14 miles long, at Dartmouth, a student will not Bernard Paget), and a minimum
RECLUSE
"This is an rely new ven-
Abbey the peat of the Dukes of Portland which will house a College to At boys for the Royal Military Academy, Bandhurst,
and
HE PAYS FOR SMASH HITS
New York.
FRANK RUSSELL, 52-
year-old business man. smiled as he wrote out cheques for $12,214.
The money
was to pay for 3.408 windows broken by boys
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS
ail over America during the world making pictures riles the baseball season.
Mr Russell was fulfilling
local trades unions.
Q
historical information to help visitors..
In a tiny pocket-lipstick and compact.
EVIDENCE obtained by using
Ile detector machines has. been refused in criminal cases' nologists, A special, New York by American courts and crimim ti
conference warned that the But over their objections 17 machine is not infallible. But it pledge he made 40 years ago aims are planned for foreign comes out that more and more! hosting next year. They include business firms are using it to": "King Arthur and the Round screen prospective employees. Table" to be made in England and "Brigadoon to be filmed in Scolland and England,
when he was caught by a police man after breaking a window
street game.
"Some day," he said, "I'll pay for every window, which kids break,"
to
་ ་
282.
XCUSE offered by a man who shot thrée employees dead in
a dry-dieaning... shop in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin: his trousties had shrunk.
MERICAN „sclentisis, - proud of their new and seventh planetarium, just opened in San Francisco, boast that it is the best in the world. It is the only one which has not been imported, from Germany.
FROM his poor start, Russell WITHOUT offering an explana became a millionairo-it is in- tion, ti à Government point cidental that he made his money ex out in a report that, while the in the glass business-and dis- number of, men in prison has tributed cards to children to give dropped by 1,182, the number of house-owners whose windows women prisonere has risen by they sinazhed.
The cards promised tree. pairs. But the ball must be THE contents of their...hand
Tage are no juke to American roturned
to the children. Sald Russell: "I was warried policewomen. This is what one that I would be encouragtog carries in Richmond, Virginia: juvenile delinquents and would six bandages, probably have to pay 100,000 anaesthetic, six bondage pads, à confirate the supply fairy doliary (£35,000)000
all of adhesive tape, a tourni mittens which are soning in New "But I'm Uckled pink. Boys-quet, a pair of scissors, a bottle York for a'dollara
pair. Seems don't have to run away pow. baton, a revolver, two books acelate material unerlords
"or ammonia, a Bottle: tf hapitin, Athey g^ure made ot-Ibe (mine)
THE WAX these big Hollywood of "tickets" for "ear offenders, Brawosters that infared up* curlies
compenics form all over the map of the city, and a book of the year.
A LOT of hot hands are ex bottle of pected before detectives cari,