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...Harvard ski team spent the vacation in Putney, Vermont, foregoing a chance at the Lyndonville meet in order to get much needed practice. They worked out under the direction of Coach Graham Taylor from December 27 to the end of the vacation...
Hart started out like a normal clean-cut American boy at Putney School in Vermont. Skiing was the big thing at Putney, and in his freshman year there he took it up. By his last year he had become proficient enough to be the student instructor in the sport...
...shower of bilge water disgorged by a ship and disgracefully dirtied their majestic plumage. The Vintners' swan master called for immediate action. Men in rowboats crowded the swans against the dock, fished them out one by one and hauled them away in vans to an R.S.P.C.A. clinic at Putney...
When Barbara was 15 her mother died, and she was packed off to Vermont's coeducational Putney School. Putney's faculty remember her as "a bubbly, vivacious, buxom girl, with a talent for mimicry and no academic skill." At Putney, she dreamed through classroom hours, let her eyes rest happily on the strange new world of young men surrounding her, romped on the playing fields, and plunged ecstatically into a production of Synge's Riders to the Sea. After the play was staged, the school drama teacher wrote Bel Geddes that his daughter had displayed no dramatic...
...Barbara," reported another teacher, "seems completely unaware of how disturbing an influence she is." The perturbation was caused largely among the male student body. One evening during Barbara's second year, Putney's headmistress discovered one of the boys kissing Barbara. She wrote to Norman suggesting that he would do well to send his daughter to another school. Andrebrook, an all-girl establishment as free of temptation as a French convent school, was recommended. Norman agreed, but his daughter persuaded him to let her have a run first in greener pastures...