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Helen Frankenthaler's painting career began in the ninth and tenth grades of Manhattan's ultrachic, ultra-strict Brearley School. Her father, New York State Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankenthaler, had died a few years before, leaving behind a beautiful widow, a sizable estate and three daughters. Helen was the youngest, and she soon found herself in "a very bad state, suffering a real childish sense of life and death." She found that only her painting class gave her "a sense of losing myself." Brearley girls sketched nudes from life and painted still-life compositions in oils. Helen...
...group the private schools are academically far superior. Most offer small classes (no more than 20), imaginative teaching and tough competition. Brearley selects its girls for their academic promise rather than social prominence, approaches the excellence of such a boarding school for boys as Andover. Buckley, which has attracted generations of Roosevelts, has pioneered a new elementary reading program. The Convent of the Sacred Heart requires its first-graders to study French, memorize such poems as Blake's "Little Lamb, who made thee?", sends its older girls out on social work one afternoon weekly. Fieldston's 660 kids...
...price of private schooling comes high. Tuition runs up to $900 a year at the Roman Catholic Convent of the Sacred Heart, attended by Caroline Kennedy and housed in the Fifth Avenue palace built by Banker Otto Kahn. Brearley, academically the top school for girls, charges up to $1,650. Then, of course, there are extras: at Hewitt, riding lessons in Central Park cost $165 a year. The price of midmorning orange juice is $15 a year at Saint David's, where the sons of Negro Jazz Pianist Billy Taylor Jr. and Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., learn italic...
...spelling. Author Wenkart has plenty of proof that parents hunger for her products. With almost no advertising, the books now sell briskly in nearly every state. They help teach literacy-hungry preschool children, but are also being used by such topflight private schools as New York City's Brearley. Sales to date: more than...
Good Carpenter. Violas started emerging from the Hutchins' living room about 15 years ago. Mrs. Hutchins, who was teaching science at the Brearley School in Manhattan, started studying the viola and discarded a store-bought model to try to make her own from blueprints. Although a Steinway violinmaker pronounced her first effort the work of "a good carpenter," she went ahead with No. 2, soon began turning out instruments that were good enough to sell. Nowadays, she tries to use the same woods Stradivarius used; she gets spruce and curly maple from the mountains of Czech been seasoning since...