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Lace-Curtain Whiskers. Schooling was a perfunctory affair. There were private tutors, four years at a Jesuit high school (after the TB had cleared up), two years at Georgetown University, which Tony hated. He came home, bought a bookstore, studied at the Art Students League by night and worked in the factory by day. In 1937, he moved to Chicago to study at the New Bauhaus, found it "awful." After a semester, he drifted into an apprenticeship with Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, traveling from project to project as "clerk of the works." "Wright," he now believes, "kind of brought...
...love for the pinto in part determined his decision to attend Washington's Georgetown University, just a ten-minute walk from the park stables. As a freshman, he expatiated on an assigned English essay subject: "Status Symbols." "Success is the true status symbol," he wrote. To Guy, Navajo was the highest symbol, and he owned...
...well at Georgetown, though not brilliantly, earning A's in his history major, B's and C's in most of his other subjects. One summer, when he was not cantering through the park with Peggy and Navajo, he worked as a counselor in a Southwest Washington playground, supervising Negro children. "And that's the kind of thing," says Principal Orr, "that Guy wants to do when he gets out of the service-something that involves him with people...
...fact, he may decide to make military service-the most integrated segment of American society-his career. Guy won an ROTC commission at Georgetown, ranking among the top six officers in the cadet corps, and is now waiting to enter Army helicopter school, for which he volunteered. He will probably go to Viet Nam after completing the course, and will do at least a five-year hitch in the service. In the interim, he is working as a data processor at NASA's Ames Research Center near Stanford, where Peggy is now a sophomore...
...through interminable and often emotional discussions of Viet Nam and hear her father's policies attacked. She is as cool an opponent in these sessions as she is at bridge, which she plays with skill and determination. Guy moved to California, after graduating from Georgetown last June, to be near Peggy, who was taking summer courses at the university. They have already shipped their aging, somewhat flabby pinto Cupid to the Coast...