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...when Pater was ready to retire, Kent was a robust school with an enrollment of 299 students, and a handsome collection of colonial buildings beside the Housatonic River, worth some $1½ million. Boys still paid what their parents could afford (from nothing to $1,500 a year) but Kent was very much on the map of Eastern preparatory schools...
Founded as King William's School in 1696, the third oldest college in the U.S. (older: Harvard, William & Mary), St. John's for the last eight years has been the site of robust, red-haired Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr's noble experiment in education by the world's 100 Great Books. Debt-ridden by a heavy mortgage, which Barr has managed to cut a third, and reduced by war to 22 teachers and 93 students, St. John's has been uncomfortably aware for the last five years of the Academy's predacious...
...Legend. The U.P. was conceived in war. In 1862, Lincoln ordered it built to tie the western territories more firmly to the Union. The U.P., main link in the first U.S. transcontinental railroad, has become a lusty, robust American legend...
Puddles to Vallee. First of Ramsey's five-day-a-week dramatic serials was The Puddle Family, lifted bodily from a comic strip. A year's trial convinced him that his daytime drama was on the right track-but he felt he needed something more emotionally robust than the comic-strip Puddles. Why not build a plot around a kindly, sympathetic prototype of mother? Ma Perkins was last week being renewed for still another (her 13th) year...
...four children, and ending on the nana of a second world war to the tune of a second venture in matrimony. The heroine knew how to play the game of living with an American love for hard knocks, and her zest has been caught in the motion picture's robust abandon...