Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kellogg is a resident of St. Paul. When home, he dwells in a spacious, squatty, fenced-in, brownstone mansion, diademing St. Paul's exclusive Crocus Hill. From his attic window he can see. two miles across a low-lying plateau, the majestic bluffs of the Mississippi River, where this gay young stream flirts sharply around a bend to escape from Minneapolis sewage...
...floated in London but had no idea that the Bank of England's financial dictatorship extended to private deals of the Boots type. And since the Bank's tacit consent had already been given they fumed at this change of opinion. Said one angry editor: "Philip Hill might be expected to receive congratulations and possibly even mention in the next honors list for bringing a great British company back to British control. But instead the Treasury has selected its largest club to knock him on the head...
...director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs to a dozen learned societies and most of Boston's swank clubs. He likes to sail and fish. He is the only member of the United Fruit directorate whose father was a member...
Headmaster Stearns, a tall, thin, large-nosed pedagog who had graduated from Amherst and taught at Hill School, brought to Andover two things: an austere determination to maintain pure intellectualism against the encroachments of vocational education; and much zeal for arousing alumni interest in the school. He resisted tinkering with College Board requirements, campaigned to get more students for a full four-year course. In his later years Headmaster Stearns grew less companionable with his students and his sermons frequently emphasized the necessity of repenting...
...most notable latterday friend, Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran. Football player, classmate of Headmaster Stearns (1890), Benefactor Cochran was a leader in establishing a pool from which the school has received $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. He gave $1,000,000 for maintaining the trees and shrubs on Andover Hill; a fund for sabbaticals for the older teachers, the Addison Gallery of American Art (TIME, May 25. 1931). Since 1928 a whole new Andover, in Georgian style, has been sprouting on the hill. Last week this seemed a great monument to ailing "Al" Stearns. And it also seemed a yardstick...