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...Sunnylands Grange Select Summer School for Boys" is a moth-Eton travesty of an English public school. Its playing fields of welfare-state spivs supply most of the antic humor to be found in this uneven first novel. Oliver Ventnor, the book's mock-hero, is sent down from Oxford for forging his uncle's name to a check. Stony-broke and stonily rebuked by his pastor father, Oliver signs on as a teaching "captain" at Sunnylands Grange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crazy Mixed-Up Cad | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Greater Evil. In Ventnor, N.J., the city's new curfew siren was silenced after parents complained that although it warned children off the streets at 9:45 p.m., it also woke the babies who had already been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Coles H. Phinizy '42, of Kirkland House and Ventnor, N. J., has been chosen for the position of Ivy Orator, Vern Miller '42, of the Class Day Committee, announced yesterday. Three men were engaged in the stiff competition for the traditional position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHINIZY ELECTED FOR IVY ORATION | 5/14/1942 | See Source »

...Permanent Class Committee were Peter Macgowan of Brewster, New York and Adams House, William B. Parsons, Jr. of New York City and Eliot House, Charles B. Ayres of Wallingford, Connecticut and Winthrop House, Harry Newman, Jr. Of Beverly Hills and Adams House, and Coles Harison Phinizy of Ventnor, New Jersey and Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fenn Elected Permanent Class Secretary As '42 Goes To Polls | 3/18/1942 | See Source »

MacKinney lives in Eliot House and is a resident of Chapel Hill, N. C. Keith, a resident of Leverett, also comes from the South. His home is Richmond, Ky. Third in the Junior voting was Endicott Peabody II of Syracuse, New York and Eliot House. Coles H. Phinizy of Ventnor, N. J. and Kirkland House, nosed out John P. Bunker of West Roxbury and Dunster House for fourth place, and Charles S. Bridge of Franklin, O. and Eliot House was the sixth Junior to qualify...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacKinney, Matters Win Student Council Elections | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

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