Word: deerfielders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys) Deerfield has the last of the strong headmasters, shaping a school in his own image: Frank L. Boyden, 83. He runs the school without speedup courses or language labs, does not publish a catalogue or even a rule book. The "Little Fellow" (5 ft. 6 in.) calls himself "a country sort of person who likes boys," is famous for second chances: "If a boy needs to be expelled, he needs even more to stay here." Even bigger (630) Lawrenceville, in New Jersey, tackles size with a house system that keeps same-age students together for eating, sleeping, studying. Tuition...
...Dirksen tries to get home. Lugging his huge briefcase (loaded, it weighs 35 Ibs. -more than the valise with his clothing) aboard the plane, he studies as he flies. But the minute he touches foot on Illinois soil, he shows that he has not lost his old touch. In Deerfield, a rainstorm scattered his audience. "Just a minute, folks," he commanded. "If I can stand up here and get wet talking, you can stay here and get wet listening. I've got another speech to make this afternoon, and my suit is going to be soggy...
...Morgenthau's background includes Deerfield. Amherst (magna cum laude) and Yale Law School-and a good war record: he enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman during World War II, emerged a lieutenant commander with several decorations after having two ships torpedoed out from under him. Picked last year by Bobby Kennedy as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he worked up a series of successful narcotics, stock market and income tax fraud prosecutions...
...escorted Marshall before a group of eleven other distinguished honorary degree recipitents. Among them that day were T.S. Ellot, James Wadsworth, I.A. Richards, J. Robert Oppenheimer, George Henry Chase (former dean of Harvard), W. Hodding Carter, Jr. (editor of the Delta, Miss. Democratic-Times), Frank L. Boyden (headmaster of Deerfield Academy), and Gen Omar N. Bradley, the other afternoon speaker...
...before a group of eleven other distinguished honorary degree recipients. Among them that day were T. S. Eliot, James Wadsworth, I. A. Richards, J. Robert Oppenheimer, George Henry Chase (former dean of Harvard), W. Hodding Carter, Jr. (editor of the Delta, Miss., Democratic-Times), Frank L. Boyden (headmaster of Deerfield Academy), and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, the other afternoon speaker...