Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slipping brassiere strap and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded following of beardless youth and balded age fall away as did the Millerites. Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large eigars, fresh-from-prep-school Yardlings matched their manliness against each other. Crimson CRIMSON candidates pushed into backstage interviews. Roverent Yale men dropped in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace of Eli Yale--across the street from the current Crawford House. At the Old Howard the dregs...
...stands 6 ft. 4 in his socks, bears down on them with 200 Ib. of well-balanced beef and bone. But under all this somatic splendor is a broken man: two shattered shoulders, two knees with floating cartilages, one cracked pelvis, one crushed hand. Causes: sports and fights from prep school on. When he first came up for the Army physical, Tufts was classified 1-B. He asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next time up, Sonny again recited his litany of disabilities. A draft official asked...
...group that turned out for the initial meeting there were 46 civilians an d44 navy men, a sufficient number to play the various prep school teams and be several college teams that have asked for contests with Harvard. Dartmouth with only a few of last year's regulars, Rondeau included, missing and Yale with only one of last season's veterans back have both asked for two games...
Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., spit & image of the romantic comedian,* took his Army physical in Los Angeles, awaited induction. He and his brother Sydney used to be energetic little globetrotters. Rarely publicized in recent years Charlie Jr. has been studying at prep and military schools, is now 18. Sid, 18 next March, hopes to get into the Army Air Forces...
...well-mannered Berkshire School, the students talk increasingly with their hands. They all have the air-talk habit. A handsome New England prep school at Sheffield, Mass., Berkshire this year generated unwonted zip in its student body by teaching them to fly as a regular part of the curriculum. This week 40 fledglings in this pioneering airprep school were agog over the first of their number to take his test for a pilot's license. With 35 hours of soloing, 17-year-old James D. Geier of Cincinnati had beaten out his headmaster. Headmaster Albert Keep still has only...