Word: hotchkiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bridget and Tom Hotchkiss of Evanston, Ill., who returned in July from a slow-moving car trip to the Maryland shore with their sons Tommy, 6, and Patrick, 3, vow never to do it again. Says Bridget: "Ever since we got home, the boys have been playing a new game. They get out all their big trucks and all their cars. I hear them saying, 'Let's play Traffic...
Lapham, 53, speaks with some authority, since he has spent much of his life in nodding acquaintance with the rich. He grew up in a well-to-do, influential San Francisco family, and he attended schools (Hotchkiss, Yale) where mixing with the scions of wealth was hard to avoid. After choosing journalism as his life's work, he discovered that financiers, corporate chiefs and politicians were happy to let him trail along in their retinues. Lapham's background and his access to the mighty have given him a privileged perch from which to view the past few decades...
Born Sept. 4, 1917, to Edsel and Eleanor Clay Ford, Henry led the privileged yet cloistered life of Henry Ford's grandson. His boyhood included chauffeur-driven lifts to grammar school. After Hotchkiss, Ford went to Yale, but he did not graduate. Reason: he paid a student to write a paper for him about Thomas Hardy's novels. Although admitting that he cheated, Ford denied that he was caught because he accidentally dropped the bill for the student's services into the professor's lap. "I may be stupid," he told Biographer Booton Herndon, "but I'm not that stupid...
Sent to the exclusive Hotchkiss School in Connecticut for his senior year in high school, Bork took to intramural boxing and won the school championship as a 147-pounder. By his picture in the yearbook is a fitting quote for a pugilist: "Do you want a contusious scab, maybe...
...experienced, thanks solely to their relationship to him. While he was hobnobbing with crowned heads and the likes of Chaplin, Cocteau and Jean Renoir, he always made sure that the physicians who watched over him and his growing brood were "world famous," or at the very least "big." At Hotchkiss, one of the innumerable schools they attended, trailing behind their father's impulse to establish, then break up permanent homes, there was the doctor who "treats the sons of some of the most important in the U.S., and he was not select at random. He took care...