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There were two boys in the row in front of me, Second formers at Groton, accompanied by a teacher. All I remembered was the trouble I went through to get off campus and into Boston in 1968 to see Cream in a theater that is now middle income housing. And then it struck me. They were five years old in 1965, when the Who released the songs that justified their existence on that stage, that night, for me. Quadrophenia's success is contextual, and The Who in concert are still playing upon sentiments from that context. The kids in front...
...submariners begin sleeping from twelve to 16 hours a day -simply to escape boredom. At the same time, sexual frustrations begin to increase. X-rated movies attract capacity crowds, and "crotch novels" pass quickly from hand to hand. Says Psychologist Benjamin Weybrew of the Naval Submarine Medical Center in Groton, Conn.: "The pornographic route has probably served a useful purpose." Some behaviorists even advocate pornographic libraries for each submarine to help alleviate tension...
...Army medical officer, Ashburn was educated at Groton and Yale. He founded Brooks to produce "cultured citizens," which to him means inculcating compassion as well as taste. "When a boy comes here," he says, "I think he's joining a new family and treat him that...
...many other private schools and go coed. This year it had 220 applicants for 80 places and ran no deficit. With the close of the Ashburn years this spring, the era of legendary Eastern boarding-school headmasters comes to an end. The others-men like "Black Jack" Crocker of Groton and Frank Boyden of Deerfield-are long gone...
...alone in his effort. Surrounding him were the very best minds that America could produce. There was McGeorge Bundy, Superboy, who went to Yale instead of Harvard because "the Bundys had decided that after both Boston and Groton. Yale might be somewhat broadening." There was Robert McNamara, Whiz Kid, razormind under clicked down hair the Motor City intellectual who had a just for numbers and a remarkable ability to convince other people of things he did not believe himself There was Dean Rush the Georgia boy who became a Rhodes scholar an anticommunist fundamentalist a skipper who saved loyal even...