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Rodeo's Home. Second of three sons of a patient, pious couple of German-Lutheran descent. Lyman Lemnitzer was born Aug. 29, 1899, in Honesdale, Pa. (pop. 6,000). Thrifty father William worked up in 53 years at the local shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs...
...Clean Sleeve. A slight, hollow-eyed boy, he heeded the advice of older brother Coe (who died in 1917), managed to win an appointment to West Point. Two Honesdale teachers helped him cram for six weeks to get a head start, but the Point was like hitting another stone wall. Blunt-spoken upperclassmen advised him to give up, and it soon became apparent that he would always be a "clean-sleeve" cadet, without visible marks for leadership, scholarship or athletics. Once he made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore...
...years there will be no mixed classes, and after that only in some honors courses. And there will be few if any finishing-school touches. Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than...
Finally Braithwaite lost his temper, tongue-lashed his laggards. Beginning immediately, he told them, they were to act like ladies, gentlemen-and scholars. They sat amazed as he gave his startling ultimatum: girls were to be addressed as Miss, boys were to be referred to by their surnames. He himself, he announced, would answer only to Sir or Mr. Braithwaite. When one boy objected that he knew the girls too well for formality, Braithwaite scored a tactical victory. "Is there any young lady present whom you consider unworthy of your courtesies?" he asked. The girls glared at the rebel...
...found a few quick, honest minds among the slum children. Progress was not smooth: Braithwaite was forced to outslug the class troublemaker, a hulking amateur boxer, and habitual bigotry cut through newly learned tolerance when the class refused to take flowers to the house of a Negro boy whose white mother had died. (Tolerance ultimately won, and the entire class showed up for the funeral...