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...trailed by his secretariat, he drove around Lafayette Square to the buff-stucco Church of the Presidents, old St. John's (Episcopal). Surrounded by officialdom, Wife Eleanor, Mother Sara, he sat solemnly through an anniversary service. Presiding in the chancel was robust, 83-year-old Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt and his sons, the sons and grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt and 1,400 other high-bred U. S. youths. The President's proud face was humble, his head bent, as old Dr. Peabody intoned a prayer: "We make our humble...
...School's eminence is that 80% of its graduates get jobs immediately, most of them in Wall Street, at $2,000 to $2,400 a year. Ashbel Gulliver has been in charge of placing graduates since 1934, when he became assistant dean. A graduate of Groton School and of Yale (where he was top man in his law class in 1922), Dean Gulliver is rated a solid, enterprising administrator...
Discretion. These were the moves that launched a thousand rumors. Radiorators and columnists did not hesitate to announce as fact (each had it on unimpeachable authority) a dozen conflicting guesses. Most of them focused on the lean and elegant figure of Sumner Welles. A career diplomat, 47, educated at Groton, Harvard, and the embassies at Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Havana, Sumner Welles is a casting director's dream of a diplomat, except for his thinning hair. His diplomatic experience has ranged from mediating in the Dominican Republic at 30 to seeing him self hanged in effigy in Cuba...
George Putnam of New York and Groton School; Matthews Hall...
Remarkable is Concrete Man Turner, who looks more like a Groton headmaster than a building contractor, for his achievement in keeping his staff together in spite of the vicissitudes of the volatile U. S. construction industry. Including Vice President (for Philadelphia) H. C. Turner Jr., who has only ten years' worth of service stripes, 13 executives (average age: 52) of this 37-year-old company average 26½ years with the company. Down, the line, 25 superintendents average 17 years, 70 foremen 19 years. No small achievement is this in an industry which must count on starving three years...