Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobe Monsch '50 of New York City will take over Cabot Hall's top spot. Whitman Hall chose Jo'Ann Johl '50 of Floral Park, New York...
Q.E.D. In Highland Park, Calif., when Mrs. C. H. Trompeter remarked to one of the bandits who had robbed her of $300 that he looked surprisingly like a professional man, he replied: "I am a professional man, madam ... a professional thief...
...which limited travel by air. Trippe proclaims in his high and earnest voice: "The average man has been the prisoner of two keepers, time and money." Having conquered time, Trippe hopes to cut fares so that anybody with a two-week vacation -the Detroit auto mechanic and the Oak Park schoolmarm-can "spend it abroad. His eventual goal: a $200 round trip to London, with other foreign fares to match. He is ready to cut the present round trip London fare of $630 ($466.70 on a special winter rate) to $405, whenever his foreign and U.S. competitors will string along...
Pinfeathers. One reason he could was the fact that he has been living his job all his life. As a ten-year-old, he flew homemade model planes in Manhattan's Central Park. At the Hill School, classmates nicknamed the quiet youth "The Mummy"; but at Yale, Trippe blossomed out, went in for crew, swimming and football. "I was a guard," he grins, "on a very poor football squad-we lost twice to Harvard and twice to Princeton in my two years...
Last month I had it good. I was running down at Sunshine Park in Florida and it was nice and warm. Twice a week they'd take me out to the beach and gallop me up and down in the surf. So I played ball with them. I picked up two seconds and a third and then won three...