Word: finches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashionable Finch, which has been one of the most famed of U.S. girls' finishing schools, has decided that its debutante students need starting off rather than finishing. Founder-President Jessica Garretson Finch Cosgrave announced a new policy: every Finch girl, before she graduates, must know how to make a living...
...Finch (annual fee for boarders: $1,800; day students, $700) caters to the daughters of wealthy families who like their girls to be artified and musicked. But Mrs. Cosgrave, who believes in feminine independence, has tried since 1929 to persuade parents that, in a world of disappearing wealth, practical arts would do rich girls no harm. In 1937 she transformed Finch from a pure finishing school into a junior college (like Sarah Lawrence, Stephens...
Britain last week awarded the George Medal for civilian bravery to a conscientious objector. Recipient was a studious, 35-year-old insurance agent, Henry Frank ("Monty") Finch. The award was posthumous...
Four days after he went to work as an unpaid A.R.P. warden, Monty Finch plunged into the flooded cellar of a bombed house, swam and waded nose-deep through rafts of debris, past crumbling walls to haul an old man, an old woman, several other bombees out to safety. Next day he confided to another warden, "I shan't be alive much longer. One of these air raids will get me." Three days later the air raids got him with a direct hit, right in front of his post...
After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and in 1936 became a British subject...