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McGovern suffered a football injury in his senior year; Anderson said he had also given up any idea of the boy being Yale material academically. However, the boy and a friend, Ralph Tite indicated they still wanted to apply for Yale, Tite, Anderson points out, was small, as far as football was concerned...
...felt that asking for a scholarship for two boys was an imposition. (Tite had decided he wanted to join McGovern at the school) I said I would be glad to raise money for the Cheshire Fund. This was in May, 1953 and I never saw or heard of the Ivy League Agreement until March, 1954, in the Yale Alumni Magazine. The fact remains that there was always a scholarship for Terry from Cheshire funds and my solicitation for the Cheshire scholarship fund was done strictly to help his friend, Ralph Tite...
After Ralph Tite confirmed his mother's understanding, Harvard "then made a formal protest to Arthur Howe (director of admissions at Yale), asking him to review the case for both Ralph Tite and Terry McGovern as violations of the Ivy League Presidents' Agreement. Mr. Howe conscientiously investigated the case...
...Milk Run. Whatever the world at large may have thought of Oscar Wilde after his prolonged and sordid trials for sodomy, to young Cyril and Vyvyan Wilde he was a fine father. The greatest figures of pre-Raphaelite London were constant visitors at the house in Tite Street, Chelsea, where Wilde, wittiest and most elegant of them all, held court with his beautiful wife Constance. But it was not the distinguished company that made the house a delight to the young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived...
John Singer Sargent, standing at the easel in his studio on London's Tite Street, used to mutter, "Gainsborough would have done it!" But in his heart he knew he was no Gainsborough. What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally they flocked to him. He complained that "portrait painting is a pimp's profession," and late in life he swore off it. "No more paughtraits," he wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another, especially of the Upper Classes...