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Signs in the store windows of Brook, Ind. (pop. 888) said simply: "Gone to the Funeral." No one had to ask whose. Indiana was burying its great Hoosier humorist, George...
...began when he was 13. At 16 he was a star player on the famed Meadow Brook Club's championship team. He also boxed and swam, played tennis, hockey, football and golf. At St. Paul's School he was president of his class. He left school at 17 to join World War I's famed Lafayette Escadrille. He won the Croix de Guerre, was shot down and captured, escaped by jumping from a moving train, walked for eight nights till he reached Switzerland...
Meadow Larks. At Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, Mrs. Hitchcock trained young poloists most of her adult life. When Tommy was ten she organized the Meadow Larks. Among them: F. Skiddy von Stade Jr., Raymond and Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Douglas Burden, Pete Bostwick, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney. Lean, vigorous, hard-riding Mrs. Hitchcock broke her ankle in a riding accident when she was 61, broke an arm the next year, had her last fall at 68 when her horse balked at a stiff hurdle, threw her, broke her neck...
...main galleries of the Brooklyn Museum were all but concealed by Walkowitz in oil, watercolors, pen & ink, photography, stone and clay. There was Walkowitz in practically every artistic style known to history, Walkowitz by such top-flight U.S. artists ,and sculptors as Wayman Adams, Alexander Brook, Guy Pene Du Bois, Gifford Beal, Ernest Fiene, William Gropper, Joe Jones...
Caution and Carroll. The founder brothers, Daniel and Alexander, were born of poor farmers from the Scottish island of Arran.* Devout Protestants, fervent educators, they were also canny as brook trout. Their first books, cautiously selected for their long-term moral, educational and financial value, included such titles as Elements of the Gospel Harmony, A Guide to the Unprotected in Matters of Property and Income ("by a Banker's Daughter"), Differential Calculus, History of the Book of Common Prayer (of which a revised edition is still on Macmillan's list today...