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Roger F. Hooper, Jr. '39, of Boston will be the Varsity track manager next year, it was announced yesterday. Hooper prepared at Groton and succeeds George H. Spencer '38 of Rochester, New York...
Despite Richard Whitney's Groton & Harvard background, social connections, family tie-up with J. P. Morgan & Co., his brokerage business apparently went from one financial crisis to another. In 1926 he was so hard-pressed for funds that he hypothecated the funds of his wife's trust fund for a firm loan, subsequently repaid it. In 1929 his brother lent him $500,000. In 1930, same year he became president of the Exchange, Richard Whitney began misusing securities of the New York Yacht Club. By 1931, Depression had nicked him so badly that he used his position...
That night Groton's worried headmaster, Dr. Endicott Peabody, telephoned Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt in New York that her son was missing. "Well, call the police." said she. By morning the police had picked up the first ominous clue, in Springfield. Two boys had registered in a hotel as Dick and Henry Godernick, spent the evening, hurried out at midnight. In their room was found a letter: "Dear Mother: Soon will be home from school. It is all very boring. How is the baroness? Ha." There were also some school notes...
...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...
...Robert Albert Haughey (pronounced Hoy) went neither to Groton nor Harvard, but did put in "a few years" at Muhlenberg College. He plays poor golf, does not ride to hounds, has no relatives at J. P. Morgan's. At 27 he has been in Wall Street barely long enough to learn the ropes with his Uncle Harold at Hoppin Bros. Last week young Broker Haughey found himself scheduled to get Richard Whitney's seat on the New York Stock Exchange.. He had not asked for it, had merely filed a bid of $59,000. Since this...