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HE queue for Eton is longer than ever. And no wonder. Mothers anxious to do right by their sons (and what mother does not?) can hardly fail to note that the old boys of today. govern the welfare state as surely 28 their forbears won the battle of Waterloo.

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by JILL CRAIGIE

The Most Elegant Man Tells Me His Secrets

I

London.

HAD the honour

last week of taking brandy with the best- dressed man ..in

Britain.

His name-Colonel the Hoa. Frederick Cripps, D.S.0 son of Lord Parmoor and brother of the late Sir Stafford Cripps, sometime Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Colonel Cripps has been invited to become men's fashion adviser to the firm of Lanvin in Paris. Their shop window bears a full- length picture of him-"the most elegant man in Eng- land."

I went round.. to White's, one of London's most exclu- to congratulate sive clubs. him.

was the son of a vlear, Alm- director David Lean the prodzict of a Quaker school, and Nool Coward along with Neame on the pay-roll before they were wearing long pants, there seems to be substance to with the faintest of checks. this theory. But in faimess to There were no turn-ups on Eton it should be mentioned

his trousers. Across his that the Bertram Mills circus

hong a waistcoat boasts of the only Old Eloniari ringmaster.

rimmed monocle.

THEN HE TOLD ME

The Colonel, distin- Ronald guished upright 70, was wearing a scft green suit

If your son is editing a pre- paratory school magazine, rule will out Eton. Otherwise he never "become A newspaper *editor--unless you actually own the paper. For the most part

investment. True, it costs

ot Atomic Weapons the product of state schools something in the neighbour- Director

Research Establishment, went to shine in Fleet Street. hood of £2,000; but this,

technical school in Sheerness. a after all, is rather less than He seems fairly typical.

Ever the price of a mink coat. As the Astronomer Royal, there is no limit to the Henry Spencer Jones, received no mere impressive an education

Sir Impossible

the

+

gold-

THE PRICE

DOUND his neck he wore a bow-tie in the colours of the Romanoff family--the colours, also, of the Travellers Club of Paris, of which the Colonel is the oldest member.

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His shoes were such exquisite

shade of brown so

that it was barely noticeable, sidered with mounting envy the Isipped my brandy and con elegance of this distinguished

old

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sacrifices parents make for than that of Latymer Upper sophy it is impossible to ignore their children many must School, Hammersmith, be wondering, not so much whether they can afford to send their sons to Eton, but whether they can afford not to..

But in literature and philo-

achievements of Etonians, particularly Eton excels in But maybe

down their old school. Str polemics. This would account for many find it amusing to its preponderance of politicians. But then, surely, the old boys Osbert Sitwell leads this cult.

in Who's Who He maintains should be leading the legal Fr that he was "educated during fession. While Old Etomiar. lawyers are ten a penny, the the holidays from Eton." number that reach the heights are in the decimal class. Neither

in

Even so, if Eton does not Great men

the present Lord Chancellor nor actually dominate the literary landscape it colours it with went to his two predecessors

specimens. Professor But wait. Before selling Eton. The two most outstand exotic

ort logical expounds House of Ayer .lawyers the the family heirlooms, it is ing law

Aldous Huxley has Commons, Sir Walter Monckton positivism. worth considering how Eton and Sir Hartley Shawcross, come gone into voluntary exile.

most of our leading poets come fares in other professions, from. Harrow and Dulwich

from more humble schools. The first four judges. Does the school that pro- College." duces such an abundance of that spring to mind, the Lords

But don't blame Eton Goddard, Birkett, Somervell and Cabinet Ministers throw up Radcliffe, have got where___thes

many of its pupils great men in other walks of are without having learned the catered before they can life? Is the Old-Etonian tie Eton boating song. dommating medicine, science

and law? Is there such A

The champions of Eton assert that, of all schools, this is the

trives,

unorthodox opinion individuality is en- Yet Eton turns out

dazzling array of old boys one that does not cast boys inte leading the fine arts and not- & particular mould At Eton, so-fine arts of film, radio they say, and journalism?

couraged.

current

Tent distinguish- Take medicine Arst. Lord none of our

architects 01 Hordor. Extra Physician to the painters,

The

most in- musicians.

three

artists Quren, did not go to school at dividual of our leading all. He was educated privately, are perhaps Henry Moore, who grammar school, whatever that may mean; after went to

Sutherland, who went wards attending the University Graham

to Epsom College, and Stanley

ed

of London. Sir Daniel Davies, Spencer, who went to a council snother Extra Physician to the school, Queen, was educated at Bridgend.

and University College, Ca.dif.

The Queen's gynaecologist, Sir

| William Gilliaft, went to Welling-

in New Zealand, Ernest Jones, Honorary

Unorthodox

ali,

squeak.

HE

By ROBERT ROBINSON

In

Robert all their sartorial splendour. Robinson (the best-dressed columnist) and

Colonel the Hon. Frederick Cripps.

sults, so I toddled off to Savile suits Row and got measured.

"'How much?" I asked the chap. '£45 each, st,' says bc. the 'Cancel the order,' says I. I

don't like throwing

money away, you see.”.

One after the other, to pirouetting round the room show them of.

"So I went. And I got three suits for £45-not one"

How he dresses in the suits of an ordinary bloke. How he met. disaster selling baking powder to the Russians.

How his brother, Sir Stafford, liked thick steaks and Burgundy.

read 'em back I can't under- stand word."

One rumour the book will undoubtedly scotch is that of Sir Stafford Cripps's puritanism.

Wasn't

he an ascetic?" I asked.

"Good, lord, do Many's the

thick steak, and bottle of Bur- gundy I've enjoyed with Star- foré. Use to go round to see him at the Ministry. He'd lock the door, suck his feet on the desk and out would come the cigars,

regimer.

The strict region that Si Stafford later adopted was due what not to puritanism but to his brother described 35 " bug he'd pick up.

have

"Oh, but we used

.

some Umes together in the sid days. I'd take him about, you know used to look after him quite a lot after our mother died"

CAPTAINED RUSSIAN POLO TEAM

VOLONEL CRIPPS must be the arily Englishman to have captained a Russian team

at polo..

Before the Revolution-cap- tained the military over thero against a civilian Side,

I made a lot of money in Russia. Went back after

the Revolution and made a comer in baking-powder. What think of that, eh? Flog-

do

Muyou!

to

the

They

ging baking powder Bolsheviks...

"Did too well, though., ont

confiscated the lot,

As we spoke, two Frinchmen. ame trilo the club and drew the Colonel aside.

He leant across to me. "Know how much this suit est me?"

I waited with suspended awe for the answer.

It came. "Twelve

sald ..quid." Colonel

You could have hamstrung

Later that day he lunched me. with a tape-measure!

And then he told me.

with brother Stafford and men- clothes 'tioned his sartorial dilemma.

We walked out into the club All the

When he returned the Colonel· Colonel's come from A

of multiple,

and Colonel Freddy firm

"What's wrong with the suit told me they'd asked him where entrance

met an acquaintance. tadors who specialise in cheap I've got on?" asked Sir Stafford, he got his clothes.

"Nothing said the Colonel

Taxation's the devil" mur- "I just opened my jacket and - suits for the ordinary "bloke.

them the label," he mured his friend. was a bit hard-up some "Well," said Sir Stafford, then showed

im "Crippling," sister, Minister of Supply, *Í ago and

get said. my

Down at his horse Lady Egerton, told me I was mine from—” and mentioned Berkshire the Colonel is writing worldly.

his memoris looking shabby and it wouldn't the multiple tailors. do. She said she'd make me a

"We went

Trouble, I write 'em up to Stafford's present of a couple of decent bedroom and be put on three long hand. When I come

years

After

are

even.

THE ASTONISHING ‘D. S.

ROBBED

WINDELL'

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said I, very

The Colonel's eyes twinkled. "Cripps-ling they'd have call-

to ed it once," hë muurinured.

EIGHT BANKS IN ONE MORNING

Ernest Smith tells one of the world's strangest stories

W!

N September 23, 1908, branches of the London and expressed a wish to draw £290

Bank (all re- in gold and banimoles. eight London branches South Western

ceived on the same morning) of a well-known bank mey made a quick haul. were each tricked into pay-

news-

FIRST HURDLE

fare wanted..

s

No suspicions? Well, there was one person who was think- ing things aver, The cabby hav- A brief exchange of courtesies ing gone through the same pro- and Robert was outside, no" cedire eight times (and re- Soon after breakfast Robert doubt very relieved that he was ceived a few shillings from The EBC is run by Sir Ian ing 290 to a man they had set out from his rooms in Maids are the first hurdle.

fare to go on with) found that porough. Sir Harold Gillies, the Jacob. He received a traditional never seen before and who Vale and made his way to the

his next directions were to go plastic surgeon, was brought up military education. No doubt the signed his cheques "D. S. Victoria Station cab-rank, Char-

he braced Clapham

From there he drove on to the to Crofton Park. There, without BBC still believes in the legend Windeil."

told he drew up outside tering a motor-car

branch where he being himself for the first test. Would

routine was repeated; then to the Indos arki South Western the of Ewn's unorthodoxy. For no Fresident of

Old Etonian has yet been en- How the Edwardians chuckled the plan work at the Vauxhall Balham Streatham, Tulse Hill, Bank 110lf and blandly sug- British Psycho-Analytical Asso- trusted with the disciplining, of in their clubs over that

alias branch of the bank? If it did Dulwich Forest Hill and Cat gested that this was what his ciation, comes from a humble ideas, which seems to be the when they react their

all should be well for each of

ford. village school in Wales.

main function of this thoroughly papers. The confounded cheek his subsequent calls would be British institution.

of the man to sign himself see the bank manager. If your son shows a blossoming

"D_Swindell"" and get away bedside manner and does not Old Elonians are not inclined with £2,320! wilt at the sight of blood, you to act at least not profession-

But he did not quite get away can rest assured he may make o ally. Maybe the old school still

a mounte with it, although it was admit- successful. doctor wherever he regards the actor

bank: The Menights of the tedly one of the most ingenious Stopping the cab a little way goes to school:

theatre, Sir Laurence, Sir John frauds the banks had ever come and Sir Ralph are not dis aeroes.

to wait walle he made a call. tinguished for their old school The man was Bernard Isaac The doors had just opened for ties. Nor do Etonians produce Robert, a 23-year-old Dutch the day's business at 9.30 when plays or direct films, although subject who for four years had be entered and asked

and worked in England see the bork manager. in William Douglas Home they lived But if he demands ever more can claim a successful play- His accomplice, Francis Reginald Of him he liquired fan were plenty to declare that they £2,320 in his pockets he lavich chemical sets, he will wright.

King was employed by the bank Advice had been received from would never have been taken in his usual vegetarian lunch and clearly profit from

and provided the technical de- the Harlesden tranch an early

transfer- by such a name. But that was caught the two o'clock train at technical "education.

Noser of 'Indeed it has been said of tails.

But it was Robert who ring his Mr Davitt Stanley afterwards, and on this Septem- Charing Cross-for Paris. abow business that the best by his pointed nom de guerre Windel's account. He intimated ber morning certainly guarantee for success is either a provided the light relief.

that he was ready to sign the suspicions halted Mr Windell's

MOST. DARING to religious education or 'none at By a series of forged Advice customers' book. That done he progress as he plughed through Penney, all As Sir Laurence Olivier Letters to managers of various asked for a cheque book ant his prepared list of branchés.”

He will profit

DUF most distinguished con-- temporary selentists went Eton. Sir William

JOHNNY HAZARD

PUSHING THE GENERAL OFF THE RUNNING BOARD, SHARI STREAKS THE CAR STRAIGHT FOR THE

BURNING PLANE..

prompt a

100

Bernard Tadas Robert (alias

"

“D. 8. Windell””)-—from

photograph taken in court.

from the bank he told the cabby D. S. Wing thought that cabby's beneft, he went sarily matter the excitement, the

By Frank Robbins

EASY, SNAP.... STEADYum YEAH HAVE YOU OUT IN A MINUTE – JUST DIZZY,

( ~YOU'RE OKAY.

GET HIM IN HERE [AND LET'S MOVE CHĮ YOU SAID IT WAS AN

EMERGENCY

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tha

the

Windell was.at

once on his codeword which made the 13 And so prefectly had the whole scheme been arranged Euard Bluffing quickly he said Advices as watertight a means changed his mind and of fraud as any previously at- that, incredible as it may hare he had

bank's, head tempted, go to the seeined

would afterwards,

one office in Fenchurch Street. There,

Robert, in his confession, said: bank official saw anything to ou make him suspicious or even to putting up a bold show for the wit was the devilment of ta

through. the main

entrance, to

ingenuity,

faumbur minutes, later almost impossible emerge a few name to carry from another door.

success to it-which urged me to

I saw But he had had enough, and the fraud.

as the hero of one of the with the morning's proceeds of

most ingenious schemes had

modern times. The

very name I assumed goes to corroborate this intention."

embarrassing

might be an

through life.

-Ane it was all over, "of Course we may be re

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

there

110

of

Certainly Robert was not in nood. Well educated in Rotter dam he spoke many languages,. was ars' accomplisted musician, lectured on theosophy. The storm broke in the bank translations for

and paricura the dext day when all biped in sodical the Advices were received at Head Office for clearing The And the bulk of his share of hint for the unknown D. S. the stolen money went to other Windell went on for several people, "I gave heaps of it months, the trail over the Con away to various poor people timent being kept waam from, and to a friend in Brussels who time to time as romo of the was it and in pomiry," be deỡn stolen banknotes retumed from clared circulation.

' Many bank swindles have

before

Eventually ha was arrested in been attempted bath Madrid, extradited and was and since, but none will ever ba tried at the Old Bailey in June as strange as this one of the 1900. Be pleaded guilty and most daring banking frauds of told the whole story, and was modern times (that was coun- sentenced to 18

with sol's description), perpetrated hard labour

Book by a bug, man who did not Ills accomplice, King, or want the money and who d seven years penal servitude, liberately chose a pseudonym He-it was who forged " the (which added more than.. a spice Faticadeo manager dignature of danger to be crooked; andrew and added the bank's private prian

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