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Also departing are some great synthesizers, for example, Harvard's protean Henry A. Murray, 69, professor of clinical psychology, who spent four decades probing human personality from every conceivable angle. A Groton graduate and captain of the Harvard crew ('15), Murray went on to become a Manhattan surgeon, a Rockefeller Institute embryologist, a Cambridge University Ph.D. (biochemistry), a personal student of Psychiatrist Carl Jung. He ran the Harvard Psychological Clinic, designed the personality-assessing Thematic Apperception Test, won a Legion of Merit medal for his work in the wartime OSS, and conducted impeccable personal research into everything from...
...Dempsey, 47, who moved up from Lieutenant Governor last year, when Ribicoff hied himself off to Washington. Dempsey inherited the big tax problems that Ribicoff's costly highway and education pro grams made inevitable. Of the six Republicans, two candidates seem to be ahead: John Alsop, Ivy-clad (Groton and Yale) brother of Writers Stewart and Joseph. Erudite and witty, Alsop - defy ing the cliches of current political nomenclature - calls himself a "progressive liberal." As a state legislator, he irked Catholics by introducing a birth control bill, has since made amends by backing Catholic charities. President of Mutual Insurance...
...friends as "a fantastic guy: he's kind of screwed up." Wilson's friends number his roommate Mike, a genial caricature of an earnest economics major, who says of his future employers "It's not every day a bank gets a chance to have a summa," and a Groton-and-unspecified-club archetype named Peter, who calls himself the "narrative thread" of the show (it is a bald-faced lie). Several of these people have girls: Wilson a fresh-faced intense type, who could have graduated only from Putney; and Mike a pancake-faced, blase' type, who could have come...
Usually called Farmington, Miss Porter's was long a finishing school for girls who "came out" rather than went on to college. Today it is better known as New England's female Groton-a rigorous, reticent prep school for rich girls (tuition: $2,700) with rich minds. Steeped in Connecticut charm, it boasts a noted art history department, one teacher for every eight of its 220 girls, and a grade-A milk herd to nourish its grade-A students, who consistently enter Radcliffe, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley...
...also gained a reputation for honesty from his family back which he mentions frequently. is the son of an Episcopalian and grandson of the founder and of Groton Academy...