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The Georgian mansion had seen the day when 30 guests could be seated at the Sheraton banquet table, and when it took a staff of 14 to keep up the house and 18 in the garden. The owner was John S. Phipps, whose father had made a fortune with Andrew...
Cheaper by the Dozen. Unlike such other famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons (Wheatley Stable, Ogden Phipps) and Jimmy Jones (Calumet Farm), canny Hirsch Jacobs works for himself: he breeds and trains his own horses. While rival trainers tend to concentrate on a few promising horses, developing and saving them...
In Thomas W. Phipps' Motel Siobhan McKenna plays a prominent Washington lawyer who believes herself to be in love with her much younger and very eager assistant, and so accompanies him to the Dugout Motel. Presumably ensconced there for the evening, she suddenly leaps from bed and exclaims in anguish...
Mr. Phipps has a view of human nature which makes it as malleable as a baseball game where the batters make sacrifice plays for each other. Perhaps this dugout philosophy has truth in it, but that the rules for happiness and self discovery should effuse from the straight-jacket mind...
Some English teachers labor under the illusion that college students speak English. Dr. Lalia Phipps Boone of the University of Florida knows better: she keeps her ears open outside the classroom. In American Speech she records the exotic gab used by her students when they stop talking for professorial consumption...