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Physically, the Murphys (and children) will live close to the Rockefellers, as their parents did for many years. The Murphy family has long had a comfortable summer house in Seal Harbor near the Rockefellers' place on Mount Desert Island, Maine. (As a boy, Dr. Murphy was a particular chum of Nelson's brother David, now board chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank.) About ten years ago, the Rockefellers sold Dr. Murphy 13 acres near their large estate in Pocantico Hills, up the Hudson River at Tarrytown, and Dr. Murphy built himself a handsome one-story house there...
...Chum Steele, bothered by a bad cold lost early, and captain Dean Peckham, with a back injury, didn't even play. But sophomore Dick Appleby took over Peckham's number four position and went to the final of the "Class B" tournament, which included the third and fourth men from all eight Ivy teams, plus Army and Navy...
Harvard's best doubles team--and third and fourth best singles players--is Chum Steels and Captain Dean Peckham, a pair of seniors who turned in big wins against unbeaten Princeton last year when Harvard bowed to the Tigers...
...know her give Lady Bird exceedingly high marks for personal charm and attractiveness. "I've never talked to anyone who didn't like her," says Blanche Halleck, wife of the House Republican leader. Lindy Boggs, wife of Louisiana Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs, and a longtime Lady Bird chum, is hard put to make her friend's virtues seem real. "I make her sound like a combination of Elsie Dinsmore and the Little Colonel," says Mrs. Boggs, "but this is the problem with Bird. When you talk about her, you make her sound too good to be true...
Peckham also teamed with classmate Chum Steele in doubles, playing as the number two team for part of the year and later as the number one combination...