Word: hotchkiss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...
...Service was originally sponsored last spring by Andover, Choate, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Taft, Loomis, and St. Paul's which with eleven other schools operated the Service on a trial basis this year. It now includes thirty schools and more are expected after the official announcement...
...Crook (H) pinned Hurley (P), in 2:40 of 1st period; 147: Noble (H) beat Pettit (P) 5-1; 157: Kinter (P) beat Eastling (H) 6-4; 167: Foster (H) beat Captain Goldenberg (P) 6-2; 177: Capt. Gilmor (H) beat LaRoche (P) 6-3; UNL: Culbert (H) pinned Hotchkiss (P) in 6:50 of 3rd period. Final Score: Penn 3, Harvard...
...traveling exhibition is testimony to Collector Chrysler's far-ranging tastes and shrewd buying. An art connoisseur since he first started saving up his allowance at 14 to buy a Renoir landscape with nude (a Hotchkiss master tore it off the wall as unsuitable for schoolboy eyes), Chrysler eased into collecting by searching out the buyers' markets: "When other collectors bought large canvases, I would buy small pictures. Later, when smaller paintings were more readily hung I acquired large ones. When interest lagged in English, Dutch and Flemish schools, I added them." In 1939 Collector Chrysler also...
Test Pilot. In Cincinnati, after he was hauled into traffic court for speeding, fined $5 by Judge Frank M. Gusweiler, 73-year-old Clifford Hotchkiss explained: "My brakes were bad, and I was only trying them...