Word: preps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chaminade College Prep St. Louis...
Anonymous Losers. At suburban Bostons Milton Academy-long a prep feeder for Harvard-a pleasant boy whose three brothers, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had attended Harvard learned from Milton's dean that Harvard had "shot me down." In Chicago an attractive, intelligent girl learned that she had been rejected by Mount Holyoke. "I kept saying to myself I'm not going to cry,' " she recalls. "Then I went up to the library and cried. At exclusive North Shore Country Day School m nearby Winnetka, one of the school's brightest boys...
...week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
Raised in Raleigh, Royster went to prep school in Bell Buckle, Tenn., then to the University of North Carolina, where he reported for the Daily Tar Heel and made Phi Beta Kappa. "He was as busy as the bumblebee he resembled," a friend recalls. A few months after he joined the Journal, he went to Washington, where he covered the Treasury, Capitol Hill, the White House. As a sign of his new national outlook, he and his wife Frances did not name their two daughters for states; they are called Bonnie and Eleanor...
...highlight of the meet today should be the dive, where Harvard's Dan Mahoney will meet last year's Eastern low-board champion Dave Hawk and former prep school champion Tom Cazel...