Word: putney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph B. Poindexter '57 of Matthews Hall and Stepney, Conn., was elected captain of the freshman ski team yesterday. Poindexter has led the freshman scoring in both of the team's meets. He is a graduate of the Putney School, Putney...
...incumbent captain is a graduate of the Putney School, Putney, Vt., where he was also on the ski team...
Hans C. Vitzthum '54 of Lowell House and Putney, Vt., is the new captain of the varsity ski team...
...Founders John and Anne Holden, both 42, all this was not meant to be just an easy way of getting themselves a campus. Both former teachers at Vermont's Putney School, they had long since come to the conclusion that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring...
Scotland Yard began a search for Christie. A London bobby recognized him in a Putney street, arrested him. The state based its case against him solely on the murder of his wife. At the trial, instead of denying the murder, his attorneys enlarged upon his crimes. In the witness box Christie described the seven killings. Victim No. 1 was Austria-born Ruth Margaret Fuerst, met in a snack bar in 1943, brought home to No. 10 during his wife's absence. Said Christie, scratching his head and licking his lips: "Well, I strangled her. I seem to remember...