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...When Endicott (Chub) Peabody '42 stood outside Soldiers Field campaigning as the Democratic candidate for Governor a few Saturdays ago, several hundred in the hurrying football crowd shook his hand, took his literature, and wished him well. Twenty-one years earlier similar crowd would have mobbed him. For in 1941 Peabody was a phenomenal left guard on one of the best lines Harvard ever fielded. Because of his fierce tackling and superb blocking he was named to every major all-American team in the country, the last Harvard football player to gain this honor...
...guard who stood out above the field this season was Endicott Peabody of Harvard who might be described in Kipling's "Fuzzy-wuzzy" phrase as an "inja-rubber idiot on the spree" or a big, fast-moving beggar who broke practically all the hostile squares...
...Kelly's tactics have been roundly condemned in the press. However, the so-called liberal element of the Democratic Party has been notable by its silence. This is especially true with respect to two avowed liberals on the same ticket with Mr. Kelly--Mr. Edward M. Kennedy and Endicott Peabody. Their reluctance to disassociate themselves from these charges will cause many voters to regard their reaction as tacit approval. If this is the case, then it would appear that the opposition voiced in the past against such tactics was aimed more at reducing its effectiveness as used against Democrats than...
Staying small is the idea at Groton, which is far less snobbish than people think. Episcopal Groton, which schooled F.D.R., has 34 teachers for 229 boys (including three Negroes). Seniors supervise younger boys. All sleep in dormitory cubicles, wash in plastic (once tin) basins, the legacy of Founder Endicott Peabody's muscular Christianity. "The important thing is not training a boy's brain," says Groton's headmaster, the Rev. John Crocker. "It's having a decent guy when you're done...
...feuding potentates of Massachusetts' Democratic Party gathered in Boston's Statler-Hilton Hotel last night for a $100 a plate unity feast honoring Endicott Peabody '42, their nominee for governor...