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...Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations to find Yaleman Taft gone, Yaleman Cruikshank in his place...
...three daughters. As conservative as Horace Dutton Taft in educational policy, he will introduce no frills at Taft. 'keep it a stronghold of Latin, mathematics, plain hard work. His younger brother Harold, a onetime Taft student who graduated from Yale in 1931, inherits his job at Romford...
Appointed. Paul Fessenden Cruikshank, 37, founder and headmaster of Romford School (Washington, Conn.); to succeed Horace Button Taft, 74, as headmaster of Taft School (TIME, Dec. 31); in Watertown, Conn...
...Davies, who stood for Parliament from Romford and was defeated by the narrow margin of 450 votes, found him- self in Los Angeles, 7000 miles from his constituency, when Mr. Baldwin suddenly called an election. As a result, he had the novel experience of conducting his campaign by cable. Mr. Davies is now a member of the London County Council, president of two London Trust Companies, and an executive of a score or more British organizations connected with modern developments, ranging from garden cities to dramatic leagues. He was formerly general manager of the greatest corporation of investment bankers...