Education: The Old Oxonian Blues

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Idol Apparent. Last week, peering at the world through the traces of an elegant shiner picked up in the Cambridge fight, Kris signed a contract with Top Rank, J. Arthur Rank's British recording firm (he is also dickering with J. Arthur's calamitously titled U.S. subsidiary, Rank Records), and set off with a earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while he writes. Merton College Tutor Hugo Dyson is not worried that Kris will abandon literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens of Rhodes scholarship" and "the kind of man you can trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep-thinking discovery "rather frightening." In case plans go sour, he has figured out an alternate road to fame. "If this doesn't work out," he told the well-muscled singer-scholar last week, "I can always launch you in wrestling."