Word: culver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Parker, 16-year-old Milwaukee tennist who plans next year to be the Wimbledon doubles partner of Ellsworth Vines: the U. S. junior singles championship, beating Gene Mako of California 6-8, 3-6, 6-1, 9-7, 6-2 in the final; at Culver...
...given its name to a U. S. educational institution, but few families own one. Brenau College (founded in 1878 as the Georgia Baptist Seminary, in Gainesville) was owned by Haywood Jefferson Pearce from 1913 until 1928 when, its endowment completed, it was turned over to a board of trustees. Culver Military Academy was relinquished by the Culver family last June, made a trust foundation. Last week Hollins College in Roanoke, Va. likewise was set free...
...Brown of Culver (Universal) has nothing to do with the famed English story of school life, Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown of Culver is named for Boy Actor Tom Brown. It is a relatively plotless, episodic picture of life at Culver Military Academy in Indiana...
...Brown is a boy whose doctor father was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, reported dead. Tom is fighting in a boxing club's preliminaries when he is found by an officer of the American Legion which subsequently sends him to Culver in memory of his father. To Tom's friend Slim Summerville presently comes Tom's long-lost father (H. B. Warner). Shellshocked, he had deserted after exchanging identification tags with an arm he found on the battlefield. Slim brings father & son together, incognito. The father is about to kill himself, after seeing Tom at Culver. Tom saves...
More relevant than the story are the scenes of Culver: the clumsy squad of plebes, inspections, the morning cannon and reveille, mealtime in the great dining hall, promotion and demotion, and finally graduation day, with its mingling of the military and the academic on Culver's beautiful campus...