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...middle years can be wise and felicitous, they can also be foolish and frantic, fraught with nerve-frazzling doubts and despairs, somber with peril and melancholy. The middle-ager usually knows better than to stay up till 4 a.m., but he sometimes finds himself waking up at 4 or 5 a.m. in a swivet of inexplicable panic. He has reached the age of what T. S. Eliot called...
...Second String. Tillinghast went to high school at New York's Horace Mann, an academically demanding private day school in The Bronx, which was run by his father for 30 years. Explained the school newspaper: "Till can't get high marks because his father is headmaster; Till can't get low marks because his father is headmaster." A scholarship English major at Brown University ('32), Tillinghast also was second-string center on the football team. His big moment came when he blocked a Colby punt in 1932, producing a safety in a game Brown...
...major-league efficiency on the field and, particularly, a confidence in themselves. The high-powered San Francisco Giants have beaten them in 8 out of 12 games this year. But the Astros have beaten the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers in seven out of eleven games. Just wait till next year...
...from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote, "I never had a dull or idle moment from morning till midnight...
...this tradition and atmosphere that the other clubs envy. "The P.C. could take in wonks from now till doomsday and they'd still be number one," said John Potter '66, a member of the Phoenix SK Club. A member of another club confided, "No one will say it in the open, but every damn one of us would rather be in the Pore...