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Lodge came to Harvard, as Lodges do, from Groton. He didn't come directly, though; for two years before registering at the University, he served as an enlisted man in the Navy, where his fellow sailors were Bostonian aristocrats. The fact that he prepped at sea as well as at Groton was, as a friend has observed, responsible for rubbing some of the private-school veneer...
...today. He refused to accept the sort of life which is so easy for a prep-school boy with a socially prominent name to fall into here, he was never a snob or a clubbie, and spent little of his time at his club (the Fly) or with a Groton clique...
Chauffeur at Groton. Until recently, pace was not the pride of many famed New England boys' boarding schools, which for years had the pretense but not the product of Eton and Harrow. Now they have changed dramatically. By snubbing Social Register dullards and by combing the country for bright recruits of all races, religions and incomes, they are fast becoming more democratic than homogeneous suburban public schools. "The idea that private schools are for snobs is absolute nonsense," says Owen B. Kiernan, Massachusetts' commissioner of education. A few Junes ago, one proper Bostonian summed up: "Today my daughter...
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...
...funny. Last week Secretary Goldberg, who gets paid $25,000 a year, seemed about the most underpaid and overworked official in Washington. He was involved simultaneously in three major disputes: a strike that stalled construction of eleven nuclear submarines in the Electric Boat yards of General Dynamics at Groton, Conn., a strike of flight engineers against Eastern Air Lines, and a court-enjoined strike by the engineers against Pan American World Airways. Out of his paneled office suite overlooking Constitution Avenue, Goldberg ricocheted from one bargaining table to another-most evenings until past midnight. One night he left the reception...