By Louis Bayard For The Washington Post
...But something happened to this Old Etonian, something American. Producers Cubby Broccoli and ...
...Cyril Connolly summed up the old Etonian tradition in a prewar journal: "a fusion of my old...
... is out of the closet and where, as an Old Etonian, he belongs: at the head of the liberal elite. He ...
Barber comments on the speculations of the press between the new Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and his working-class rival, Ken Livingstone. About the one really ugly aspect of the mayoral race was the vitriolic campaign against Livingstone mounted by London's evening newspaper, the Evening Standard, which needless to say has claimed much of the credit for Boris' victory. The history of this enmity will serve to introduce Flat Earth News, a disturbing book that subjects the Fourth Estate to the same withering scrutiny that it applies to people in the public eye.
...Outwent Old Etonians, in came Old Estonians-or so Harold Macmillan, him...
...: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Old Etonian mayor of London, former editor of the Spectator, f...
The Greek shipping industry is planning to move en masse back to Athens; pharmaceutical companies are preparing to shift expansion plans to Switzerland and New Jersey; aerospace engineers are moving back to France, Germany and Italy, and the museum world is facing demands for the return of artworks loaned by non-doms. Melanie Phillips, a Daily Mail columnist and a refugee from the left (formerly she was with the Guardian newspaper), wrote recently that the "overclass" has "deliberately and wickedly created over the years a legal and welfare engine of mass fatherlessness and child abandonment, resulting in a degraded and dependent underclass and a lengthening toll of human wreckage.
...As an old Etonian, he is susceptible to such pressure. Lamely, the C...
Why did he do it? The latest parlour game in literary circles this past spring concerns V.S. Naipaul's decision to allow publication of an authorized biography. At first sight, there may not seem anything unusual in that. After all, venerable authors often make an effort to pre-empt history by making sure their private lives remain in the hands of a friendly worsdsmith. But in this case, Mr. Naipaul has caused consternation by going out of his way not to try to influence events. Patrick French's doorstopper "The World is What it Is" turns out to be stunningly indiscreet. If "Sir Vidia's Shadow," Paul Theroux's jaundiced account of his relationship with his ex-friend, was the prose equivalent of aguided missile, Mr. French has now detonated the mother of all thermonuclear weapons. As the...
... Wooster-ish prank, the irrepressible Old Etonian did his best to curb his tendency to indulge in bl...
NatWest Bancorp.'s president, chief executive and chairman - Nota Bene John Tugwell has successfully transformed NatWest Bancorp from a losing business into a highly profitable venture. As the bank's president, chairman and chief executive, Tugwell employed cost-cutting measures and write-offs, and deployed a new management style to double the net income of the company from 1992 to 1994. The most surprising thing about the turnaround is that Tugwell was able to corner a solid segment of the US consumer banking market, a feat that its archrival Barclay's was unable to do years earlier. The key to the bank's success is Tugwell's strategy to manage NatWest's branches as if they were franchises, with branch managers serving more as retailers instead of bankers. This helps in meeting the un...
... banking, once a bastion of the "old Etonian" network. He studied banking on a scholarship from...
.... A smart new editor--old Etonian Geordie Greig, formerly of Tatler--was appointed, ...
It must have been nearly 10 years ago that I found myself walking down a Soho street late one evening, a few paces behind the writer, singer and wit, George Melly. There was not the remotest chance of mistaking him for anyone else. How many people ever step out in public in a florid, red and white zoot suit? I knew where he was heading. It was December, and at this time of year, for the past three decades, he has played a festive residency at Ronnie Scott's, still one of the world's best jazz clubs. I was heading there myself to hear the show, so I followed the genial apparition all the way to the doors. I wish now that I had tried to say hello to him, but from the way he was languidly humming a blues to himself, I had a feeling he did not wish to be disturbed. Besides, I invariably fin...
...Melly. The first Old Etonian to lead the party in four decades, Mr. Cameron has...
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