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...School for Scandal. He begs Tom's housemaster (Leif Erikson), a hearty extravert whose biceps are bigger than his hatband, to make a man of the boy. The only person who really knows Tom and likes him. though, is the housemaster's wife (Deborah Kerr. no kin to John). In the end. when Tom has been driven to suicidal desperation by the taunts of his pals and a panic dread that he may really be what they say he is, it is she who restores his soul by giving him her body...
...Duchess insists that hers is no Cinderella story; she and her editorial assistants have dusted off an impressive number of highborn Maryland and Virginia kin-Montagues and Warfields so snootily Southern that they called the Union Army "Mr. Lincoln's men." This family tree spreads its shadow over the artless stories told by Bessiewallis* about grandmother's "victoria," her first sausage curls, her posh uncles like S. Davies Warfield, who grandly inserted a notice in the newspapers that because of "the appalling catastrophe now devastating Europe" (it was 1915), he would "forgo the ball that he might otherwise...
...kin to Pennsylvania's James Finnegan, now serving as Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager...
Hard to Escape. The organization that helps answer that question is Princeton's Educational Testing Service (no kin to Princeton University), which in eight years has become an extraordinary power in U.S. education. It began when three separate groups-the College Entrance Examination Board, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the American Council on Education-decided that one central agency should take over the overlapping testing activities all three were carrying on. Under President Henry Chauncey, 51, onetime assistant dean of freshmen at Harvard, the E.T.S. soon expanded far beyond the college boards. Financed by student...
...kin to Jack (Dragnet) Webb...