Word: pomfret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dixwell Avenue, Quincy, Mass.; Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass. Jertson, Jan Earl of 70 Green Street, Fairhaven, Mass.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Kimball, John Ward of 50 School Street, Andover, Mass.; Phillips Academy, Andover Mass. Lowry, Edward George, 3rd of Sweet Hollow Road, Huntington, N. Y.; Pomfret School, Pomfret Conn. Mason, James William of 2005 Dalton Rr., Greensboro, N. C.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Newbury, Samuel Parkman of 2 Newton Street, Weston. Mass.; Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. Nichols, John Doane of Clinton Avenue, Westport, Conn.; Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. Petschek, Stephen Ronald of Southlawn, Birchall 'Drive, Scarsdale...
...Good Oar. The scion of a modest Gooderham inheritance was sent to a primary boarding school in Pomfret, Conn., then to Groton, which left another mark: he learned that he was of the elite, chosen and trained to serve, and to solve problems. With the notion of getting closer to the world, young Dean undertook a romantic, singlehanded journey into the Canadian north woods as cook and handyman with a surveying gang...
...idea for PhotoMetric came to Booth while he was plowing his Pomfret (Conn.) farm. "I suddenly realized," said he, "that the clothing industry was plodding along with the same horse-&-buggy techniques of 50 years ago." The tradition of the industry forced retailers of ready-made suits to keep big inventories to supply only a small range of materials and sizes. In addition, alterations for the hard-to-fit customer cost retailers 6% of their gross. Why not work out a method to eliminate alterations? To Booth the answer was photography-in effect, an application of the Bertillon system...
Sydney P. Clark, Jr., R.D. No. 4, Norristown, Penn., and a graduate of the Pomfret School, Pomfret Conn...
Award of the 19 Honorary prize Scholarships was made to seniors from 10 New England Private Schools. Exeter Academy leads the list with five recipients; St. Marks and Phillips Andover follow with three apiece. Two men from Milton Academy and one apiece from Choate, Loomis, Middlesex, New Preparatory, Pomfret, and Thayer academies round out the list...