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...time Case finished law school in 1928, three New York firms were interested in him; he chose Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, respected experts in corporate law. He settled down to the life of a commuting Manhattan lawyer, but, says Mrs. Case: "When he's paying all of his attention to earning money, he gets itchy to help others...
Frederick B. Churchill '55 of Belmont, Mass., and Winthrop House has been elected president of the Harvard Ski Club for 1954-55. Thacher W. White '56 of New Britain, Conn., and Eliot House will be the vice-president and Charles H. Thomas '56 of Newport, R.I., and Lowell House, secretary-treasurer...
Chefoo to Cheesecloth. Thornton was certainly different. Whatever school he attended-the Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai, where his father served as consul general, the missionary school at Chefoo, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., the Thacher School at Ojai, Calif.-he was the delight and despair of his teachers. A shy, skinny boy in knee pants, he was wrapped in a cloud of make believe; his greatest pleasure was to dress his sisters up in cheesecloth and get them to act one of his own one-act plays...
Pigs & Princesses. At the Thacher School, Thornton wrote a play called The Russian Princess-An Extravaganza!, covered his first-year algebra book with the tables of contents for imaginary books ("Quadratics in those days could be supported only with the help of a rich marginal commentary"). By that time, Mr. Wilder had decided that Thornton should spend his summers working on a farm. Thornton worked-after his fashion. He fed the pigs, dreamily pitched the hay, declaimed "to the cows in the stanchions the judge's speech from Barrie's The Legend of Leonora...
...fall of 1910 a tall, sandy-haired young Bostonian rented a house in the rugged foothills behind Santa Barbara, Calif., hired two assistants and opened a private school for nine boys. Headmaster Curtis Wolsey Gate, who had been an English master at nearby Thacher School, was convinced that the West could use another school that combined English-style private education with the rough & ready atmosphere of California ranch life. Last week, looking back over 40 years of his experiment, 65-year-old Founder Cate was more convinced than ever...