Word: spared
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...ever since its founding in 1855. Last week the trustees of the Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge has taught Shakespeare and Latin there for 30 years, has been vice-rector for 18. He and his predecessor went to school (Cambridge...
Durham, a Chicago fabricator and steel broker, joined the daisy chain through a broker named McAleer, who phoned him long distance. If Durham could be in New York that night, said McAleer, he could buy 100,000 tons of steel. Too eager to pack, Durham grabbed a spare shirt, flew to New York, and hurried to the rendezvous in a suite in Manhattan's Hampshire House...
...brig Sophie, of Portland, Me., wallowed for 119 days in Atlantic gales while the sickened French passengers grew more & more scandalized at the improvidence of American seamen. Items: the captain rarely reckoned their position, the ship carried no spare sailcloth to repair the rags she sailed by, the logbook covers had to be unraveled for thread to patch the sails, food and liquor were so carelessly stowed that quantities of both were lost. Americans, observed Moreau, "rely on luck more than on anything else in making a voyage...
Still, although much of the pre-war hoopla will be missing, there will be tradition to spare. H. S. Payson Rowe, Vice-President of the New England Division of the Associated Harvard Clubs and Reunion Chairman, has had charge of class committees which have been working for several years planning today's 25th Reunion...
...Spare the Whip. Richards knew his highstrung mount, and, because he did, the Minstrel had never felt his whip, and never would. Says Tudor Minstrel's head stable man: "If you whipped him it would make him nervous. It would be like whipping a good dog; he would wonder why you did it." The last time he raced, in the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket a month ago, he pulled away from 14 other prize three-year-olds and won by eight lengths, only a fifth of a second off the mile record (1:37⅓) that has stood...