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...Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, and descendant of Washington's second postmaster-general, he grew up in Central Park, meanwhile being bounced from the Buckley School (Lindsay's alma mater). He was later thrown out of Phillips Exeter for punching his Latin teacher, finally made Princeton via Hotchkiss, where his temper cooled and his intellect sharpened, and he graduated summa cum laude. After a hitch in the Marine Corps, he got a Ph.D. in art history and was snapped up by the Met, only to find himself in the last mayoralty campaign drafting position papers on park usage...
Linen, who is president of the board of trustees of Hotchkiss School, vice chairman of the board of Athens College in Greece, and a member of the board of trustees of Williams, was eager to cooperate. He invited three top U.S. educators to advise Thai government leaders and educators on construction and programming of the new university. Dr. John E. Sawyer, president of Williams, Dr. Ashley S. Campbell, dean of engineering at Tufts, and Dr. Richard T. Goll, master of Harvard's Leverett House, are already in Thailand. "I hope that when the educators get back...
...FRANCE, Thomson-Houston took over Hotchkiss-Brandt to form the country's largest appliance producer, and the steelmaking Pont-à-Mousson merged with the Compagnie Financière de Suez (TIME, Jan. 28). Image et Son, a French radio-TV firm owning peripheral stations that broadcast into France, announced it was buying 30% of the Compagnie Française de Télevision, a research organization...
Father Eddy spent his childhood serving up milkshakes in his father's pharmacy; his son Peter was brought up in a dazzling world of millionaires and Chippendale chairs. Even the names of his schools had that ring of good crystal-Eaglebrook, Hotchkiss and Yale...
...Adano. To Pierson's neo-Georgian-style quadrangle, Hersey will bring a rich and varied experience. Born in Tientsin, the son of Christian missionaries, he spoke Chinese fluently before he knew a word of English. When he was ten, his family returned to the U.S., and Hersey attended Hotchkiss and Yale ('36). After a postgraduate year at Cambridge, he came back to be secretary to Sinclair Lewis, then war correspondent for TIME and LIFE. His third book, A Bell for Adano, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and was followed by the celebrated account of the Hiroshima bombing...