Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown's School Days" is the latest of Gene Towne's dramatizations of those well-read yarns that are an integral part of the education of every child who ever saw the inside of a public library. Graduates of prep school, "select" or otherwise, will see in this account of early nineteenth century Rugby the origins of those mysterious forms and rituals which give the prep schools today their distinctive aroma. Everyone will see a fine story, magnificently acted, effectively produced...
...Andover, and the son of Robert P. Fisher, who coached Varsity elevens from 1919 to 1925, and George Hibbard, a 218-pound Brookline High product, bolster a line which seems lighter than usual. Charles Cowen, a fullback from Exeter, and Walter Wilson, Mercersburg halfback, are backfield candidates with fine prep school athletic records
...usual, there will probably be only a few prep school standouts in the Yardling crop reporting today, and inexperience will not count heavily against a candidate. Tom Bridge and Tom Cowan of Exeter, a lineman and back respectively; backfield men George Blanchard of Arlington and Wilson of Mercersburg all come to Harvard with established gridiron reputations...
...Made Man." Medium-brown Chester Olivier, 16, is also lower-middle class, the son of a Creole artisan who deserted his wife and four children for a mistress. But Chester is on the way up. Prodded by his ambitious mother, smart Chester is now a junior in a private prep school, active in dramatics, vice president of his class, goes to dances with lightskinned, upper-class girls, teaches Sunday school in the Methodist Church (higher in the social scale than his mother's Spiritualist Church), was recently voted "fifth most popular Negro in New Orleans...
...their parents' new occupation, bridled at having to spend their vacations lugging Dutch pies to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant. Five years later, when Vernon had graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce and Gordon had flunked out of his fourth prep school, the boys changed their minds. By then Father Stouffer had a fixed idea: light, tasty, weight-saving lunches for business men & women. With a $15,000 bank loan and Mother Stouffer running the kitchen the family opened its first Stouffer restaurant...