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...room (legal limit: 80), often sit two-deep at the candlelit, mirror-topped tables. House champagne costs only $4 a bottle, but vintage Moet & Chandon at $12 is swilled and spilled by the Jeroboam. The entertainment consists mostly of commercials. One recent evening Meat Packer (and charter member) Kurt Distler presented a program devoted to a new, deep-frozen brand of sausage. Status seekers come anyway to get their names and faces in the papers...
...Everett Snavely. As a matter of fact, for the past 17 years he has been running the nearest thing to a union the presidents have-the powerful Association of American Colleges. Last week, as he announced his retirement as executive director in favor of President Theodore A. Distler of Franklin and Marshall College, Guy Snavely could, as much as anyone else, lay claim to making the A.A.C. the Great Mouthpiece of U.S. colleges...
...police hastily sent out an eight-State alarm, searched trains, railroad stations, hotels. And as Henry's agitated father, John Cyrus Distler, sped by train to New York, the two boys marched calmly into Henry's house in Baltimore...
Thereupon Henry's 20-year-old sister telephoned Mrs. Roosevelt and packed the boys off to New York under the watchful eye of the Distler chauffeur, James Parker. By the time they had reached Pennsylvania Station, crowds of news photographers were waiting for them. So was the Roosevelt chauffeur, James Kehoe. He rushed up and threw his arms around the boys to shield them from the photographers. Chauffeur Parker, misunderstanding the stranger's purpose, took a swing at Chauffeur Kehoe. While the two guardians traded punches and police leaped into the fray, Dirck Roosevelt became hysterical and Henry...
...identity, they hustled the boys out of the crowd onto a train to Stamford, brought them back to New York by the next train. In her East 69th Street house Mrs. Roosevelt grimly sent the boys supperless to bed -on separate floors. To newsmen Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Distler explained that the escapade was merely "an ill-advised prank." that their chief worry was whether the boys would be readmitted to Groton. Said the parents: "They really love the school...