Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joan Hinton, now 33, was an attractive blonde prep-school girl, interested in horses and sports. At the University of Chicago she became a physicist. She was a junior scientific assistant at Los Alamos when the first atomic bomb was exploded; she and her mother spent happy weeks together in the rough outdoors of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's Perro Caliente ranch, although Oppenheimer cabled last week that he did not know them well. By her own account, "something started to stir" in Joan Hinton when the first A-bombs were dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter...
...freshmen will be underdogs in their game at Andover. The perennially strong prep school squad has a three-year winning streak in the series...
...Kentucky prep race for the Derby last week Jockey Eddie Arcaro, riding another come-from-behind race (from twelfth at the half-mile mark), brought the Woodvale Farm's Goyamo home first in the $38,600 Blue Grass Stakes at Lexington. Time...
...freshman tennis team dropped its opener Saturday to a strong Exeter varsity. The prep school made a clean sweep of the singles, and dropped only one of the doubles, to win 8 to 1. Lone winners for the Crimson were Steve Gottlieb and Langdon Smith who scored in the first doubles...
Meanwhile, the freshman track team, competing at Exeter, continued its undefeated streak. Coach Al Wilson's squad trounced the prep school...