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Bill Bundy was in Jack Kennedy's class at the Dexter School in suburban Brookline, and Mac was a year behind. Still a year apart, Bill and Mac won top honors at Groton, were Phi Beta Kappa at Yale, were tapped by Eli's most elite senior society, Skull and Bones...
...Jove!" Boston-born, Grew was educated at Groton ('98) and Harvard ('02), was sent by his family to travel in the Far East, planned to return to the family's banking business. While in China, he shot a tiger in a cave - a feat that later enthralled big-game-hunting President Theodore Roosevelt. During that trip Grew became fascinated by life abroad and decided to enter the foreign service. By the time Teddy heard from a mutual friend about the tiger-slaying exploit, Grew was a $600-a-year clerk in the U.S. embassy in Cairo...
...James D. Wilkinson '65, of Lowell House and Groton, who has been given the Palfrey Exhibition for "the most distinguished scholar in the senior clean who also is the recipient of a stipendary scholarship...
...blonde patrician, the granddaughter of Dr. Endicott Peabody, founder of Massachusetts' Groton School. Once divorced, she is now the wife of British Investment Magnate Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree, a grandson of the original Marshall Field...
Fatheaded Whale. Last week a deep-diving laboratory was launched by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. in Groton, Conn. Christened the Aluminaut and looking for all the world like a fatheaded sperm whale, the craft is the world's first aluminum submarine. Its 51 -ft. hull consists of eleven forged cylinders. Since aluminum's strength-to-weight ratio exceeds that of steel, the Aluminaut's 6½-in.-thick shell will withstand pressures of 7,500 lbs. per sq. in. at the sub's 17,000-ft. maximum diving range. At the same...