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...chills & fever; OWI's Elmer Davis, whom the Tribune accused of having majored in the "tactic of vilification" while at Oxford; OONR (a Tribune tag meaning "Old Oxonians Not Rhodes Scholars") Marshall Field III (Eton and Cambridge), editor of the Tribune-rivaling Chicago Sun; OONR Henry R. Luce (Hotchkiss, Yale and Oxford), editor of TIME...
...story is that he was born well-heeled: his mother's family founded prosperous Westvaco Chlorine Products Corp., also owned Warner Bros. Co. (corsets). His father came of an old Icelandic family that settled in Pennsylvania, originally had a strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe to study the phenomenon of sunburn...
...Many schools have put students to waiting on table, making beds, and cleaning rooms" (as boys at Kent and certain other schools have always done). Especially in New England, students are raising their own farm products. Some schools are lending pupils to nearby farmers (examples: St. Mark's, Hotchkiss...
William Clay Ford, 17, youngest son of Edsel, joined the Naval Air Force as a cadet in Detroit, will go on active duty when he graduates from Hotchkiss. Al ready in the armed forces are his two brothers, Corporal Benson, Naval Lieut. Henry...
...Hotchkiss boys are helping Connecticut farmers plant and harvest their crops...