Word: wheaton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mingles, Hurt best Avery of Dartmouth, Gilkey Harty of Dartmouth, Fester of Dartmouth beat John Palfrey, snow of Dartmouth best Chet Legg, Wheaton of Dartmouth beat Jack Sterwart, and Hill Muther of Harvard beat Hill of Dartmouth...
...week Senior Partner Erro Saarinen, broad-shouldered, impish son of Cranbrook's famed, apple-cheeked Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, was elated but slightly old-hand about the victory. Five years ago he won third place in an architectural competition in Helsingfors," last summer won a fifth in the Wheaton College free-for-all (TIME, June 13). A few weeks before the deadline this year, he confided, "I went skiing up at Quebec, and to hell with it." He got back in time to help Friends James and Rapson get their entry in just under the wire, because "competitions...
Villain of the piece is a Wall-Streeter named George Wheaton, a graduate of tiny, semipublic, coeducational Clifford Academy. He wants to give Clifford one of his easy millions, on condition that the school become private, preferably for boys only, and that Jews be excluded...
...marrying so long that when he finally falls in love, it is with a girl who might be his daughter; he delays proposing to her so long that she is wooed and married by his nephew before he has even heaved a deep sigh. But the minute Mr. Wheaton's poisoned sugarplum comes along, Uncle Tim gets his back up. He succeeds in keeping it away from the hungry village, and if he isn't happy in the end-well, a slowpoke can't have everything...
...knows these Johnny Rebs. They'll be good to watch even in defeat, They're trained to take such things in stride down Charlottesville way. Vag only hopes his willowy Wheaton girl, who hails from Wisconsin, will understand their tactics...