Word: auchincloss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenneth Auchincloss '59, of Lowell House and New York City, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship for 1956-57. The scholarship is given yearly to a member of the sophomore class who is judged by the committee the most promising scholar in his class...
...reason for the shifting attitude in fiction is that the new generation of business authors has often had firsthand business experience. Louis Auchincloss' The Great World and Timothy Colt, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents, W. H. Prosser's Nine to Five, Lawrence Schoonover's The Quick Brown Fox, are all business novels by authors who at one time or another have been in business themselves. Thus in Executive Suite, Author Cameron Hawley, a longtime executive of Armstrong Cork Co., can expertly detail for his readers the struggle to find a new president...
...GREAT WORLD AND TIMOTHY COLT, by Louis Auchincloss (285 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), is another saga of the pervasive man in a grey flannel suit (legal division), specifically a young attorney in one of Manhattan's sprawling and powerful law factories. As outlined by Novelist-Lawyer Louis Auchincloss, Timothy Colt's problem is how to conform to a pattern whose place in the moral spectrum lies comfortably between the shining white of pure integrity and the smudgy black of downright dishonesty. At the start, as an eager apprentice in the prosperous firm of Sheffield, Knox, Stevens & Dale, young...
...Partner Dale's dirty work, Timmy concludes that Knox's talk of high purpose is all empty words, bitterly begins cutting moral corners himself. He ends with his career in ruins, his marriage in pieces, and his own integrity damaged past repair. But through it all, Counselor Auchincloss does not adduce any convincing evidence to counter the verdict of a willowy interior decorator: "Let's face it, dear. You and I both adore Timmy," he tells Timmy's mistress, "but we can still admit he's a dull...
...Yardling" has elected Howard Suber to the position of Editor-in-Chief for the spring term. Assisting him are John P. Debicki, Managing Editor; and Allen H. Sohl and Donald K. Knudson, Production Co-Editors. Kenneth Auchincloss will serve as Sports Editor, and Robert C. Schlossman as Business Manager...