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Bill Chickering was the first Time Inc. correspondent to be killed by enemy fire in World War II. A Hotchkiss and Yale graduate, he had published a book on the history of Hawaii and was living in California when World War II began. Hired by Time Inc. to cover the Asian theater, in 1943 Chickering accompanied the U.S. Navy task force when it bombarded the Gilbert Islands and was with the Marines when they landed on the Treasury Islands. And when General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines at Leyte, Chickering was among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed...
...went to Hotchkiss? Do you know Kate Lindsay...
...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...