Word: cruikshank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell one New England prep school from another is "sometimes terribly difficult," says Taft's Headmaster Paul F. Cruikshank. But the name of his small (360 boys) school-an ivied Gothic campus in Watertown, Conn.-is hardly forgettable. It evokes the massive figure of President William Howard Taft, whose slimmer brother, Horace Button Taft, founded the school in 1890. A score of other Tafts* have since passed through; but these days another name makes Taft just as memorable-Cruikshank...
...Yaleman Cruikshank, who succeeded the founder in 1936, had himself started another school near by after a teaching stint at Hopkins and The Gunnery. But the Taft job looked better: a no-frills school stressing math, Latin, plain hard work, with Taft family money to keep it improving. In Cruikshank's years, this formula has educated more than 2,000 boys, most of them rock-ribbed Republicans, though Taftmen also include such fugitive Democrats as New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Academically Yale-feeding Taft is as solid as ever, with 40% of its boys taking...
...Draper, Chris Eustis, and Parker Crowell will make up the Brown midfield. Captain Charlie Banks, John Arato, and Bill Lemire will occupy the defensive positions, and Bill Cruikshank will tend goal...
ORESTES OR THE ART OF SMILING, by Domenico Gnoli (71 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $6.95). Domenico Gnoli is an artist whose pen drawings for his charming fable (about a prince who did not know how to smile) remind one a little of Cruikshank's, and a lot of Domenico Gnoli's. The book is for children and wise adults...