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...Romford School, perched in the Litchfield Hills, will be on the grounds of an old school of the same name, which folded in 1942. Its 60 students will pay a tuition of $1,580 a head. Its brash slogan: "College preparation PLUS...
...politics, science and industry, serving as kind of visiting scoutmasters, will supply the "plus." A regular faculty will prepare the boys for college; Stettinius & Co. will "prepare them for life." Each of the 15 big-name visitors has promised to spend two weeks of the school year on Romford's 680 acres-teaching, hiking, fishing and just chatting with the boys. Says the catalogue: that way a Romford graduate should develop "an interest beyond the next dance...
...reason for promoters' postwar optimism is the enterprise of the friendly bookies. Even during the worst days of the blitz, they kept the sport thriving. Between races at Romford and Wimbledon in 1941, they quoted odds on dogfights going on four miles overhead between the Luftwaffe and the R.A.F...
...Connecticut Republicans had up the man who streamlined their State party in 1938: Paul Lincoln Cornell, 43, who made a pleasant fortune in the advertising business, retired to run Romford (preparatory) School at Washington, Conn. Cornell last week devoted his promotional talents to turning out Democratic Incumbent Francis Thomas Maloney...
Below is the roster of Freshman football players who reported last week: NAMEAge Wt, Ht. Prep. School Town ENDS Butler, George P 18 153 5.11 Romford Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Corcoran, William J. 17 180 6. Cambridge High Cambridge Coughlan, Joseph J. 17 140 6.1 Cambridge Latin Cambridge Dodge, Henry W. 20 150 6. Exeter Omaha, Neb. Glidden, John C. 19 170 5.11 Exeter Englewood, N. J. Haydock, George G. 18 175 6.2 Milton Hewlett, N. Y. Herter, Christian A. Jr. 18 190 6.5 St. Paul's Boston Hinton, William H. 18 168 6.2 Putney School Putney, Vt. Hurley, Morris...