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Beatle-booted, bell-bottomed, turtle-necked, and althogether more hip-looking, we thought, than the next students gathered around him, Mr. Mailer was as generous with his conversation as anyone could demand. He held away over the worshipful without pause, punctuating 5th Avenue prep-schoolese with occasional puffings of his torso and rockings on his heel. A man who writes like a good whore smiling form the hip should be a good talker. Mr. Mailer is, and was Friday--at least, we learned, for a while. He did not, in fact, dine at all, but kept his post...
...space rookie still speaks in a casual drawl. He has also managed to achieve a space first of sorts. He asked for-and got -grits (dehydrated) on his breakfast menu for this month's moon trip. But Duke's playfulness is deceptive. He was class valedictorian in prep school (Admiral Farragut Academy, St. Petersburg, Fla.), graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy and later earned a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from M.I.T. Married and the father of two boys, he is also the only Apollo 16 crewman who openly made a point...
...from the upper East side, a debutante, the whole bit, went to prep school and when I was 17 my father dragged me away from singing in a place in the Village," said Kitten. Her father taught her how to play poker when she was 12, but it was not until last year that she was able to put the lessons to use. "I started off playing nickel-dime," she says, and now betting $20 or $30 does not bother...
...game, she'll just get pushed to the back of the room-and rightfully so." Such comments may sound like isolated examples of male resentment, but they were pretty much the norm. For one thing, nearly 40% of Yale's male students were products of all-male prep schools. By seeing women only in social situations throughout formative years, says Pepper Schwartz, the men had never learned "to develop friendships with women or to treat them as intellectual equals...
...three-time New Jersey State Prep School Champ, and a two-time National Prep School Champ. Biello recently placed fourth in the Easterns at Temple, better than any other Harvard grappler...