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...peaceful coexistence is that most readers' thirst for the printed word is only whetted by TV. It is likely that TV was a big factor in newspapers' gain of 1,000,000 circulation (to a record 57 million) last year. Los Angeles Times Editor L. D. Hotchkiss even credits his paper's saturation coverage of TV with helping to cure the summer circulation slump that has long plagued dailies. Madison Avenue also seems to have heeded publishers' arguments that newspaper ads command greater attention than TV commercials. While TV's ad revenues have jumped...
...first thrill of the afternoon came when Dartmouth freshman Charlie Hotchkiss, who was making only the ninth jump of his career, landed 39 ft., 9 in. from the target center. Hotchkiss used a Derry Steerable chute, which allows more control over horizontal movement than the chute used by Weatherly-White...
...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...
Paradoxical Moral. Author Ham, 38, seems to have followed his own life closely in the book-he too is the son of an educator (his father is president of Mount Holyoke College), he too bounced in and out of Hotchkiss, Yale and the R.C.A.F. As a result, much of the book has the charm, but sometimes also the limited private meaning, of reminiscences over the third martini between balding alumni. But. apart from being on the whole immensely amusing, the book carries a paradoxical and completely unpreachy moral: the longest way around is the shortest way home. Those...
...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...