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Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Wilson Brown, 74, U.S.N., naval aide to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, onetime superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1938-41), who led a task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, won a Distinguished Service Medal; in Groton, Conn...
Whitney was raised on Long Island amid 28 cars, including four Rolls-Royces-but he still charged his friends 5? for rides to school. From Groton and Yale he crossed the Atlantic to study history and literature at Oxford (a point which should help him in Whitehall). From his first job as a $16-a-week Wall Street buzzer boy, he rose to head the highly profitable J. H. Whitney & Co. (investments). Even as he was getting into the social news with his stable of racers and steeplechasers, his polo playing, his first marriage to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus...
They had a big party down at the 'Poon a while ago, and in a moment of ecstasy, one of the vigorous young non-Groton members (whose father had lost in the Crash, exiling him to Scarsdale High) suggested that with the help of Old Grads, they could probably throw together an 80th Anniversary Number. The issue now on the streets testifies to the hilarity of that monumental party; but it has also the elements of perpetual hangover, naivete, and, yes, even inanity, which one has come to associate with the superannuated Lampy down through the years...
Bundy has been impressing people since his days at Groton. Raised in Boston, he majored in mathematics at Yale, where his scholastic average was consistently in the high 90's and where he was a member of Skull and Bones, the apex of the secret societies...
President Eisenhower to veto the natural-gas bill (TIME, Feb. 20). On the plea that South Dakota needs: 1) a farmer in the Senate, and 2) a return to high supports. Groton Farmer Ken Holum, 40, got the Democratic nomination over Mitchell Municipal Judge Merton Tice, 46, by an almost two-to-one vote. Republicans predicted (probably correctly) that Francis Case would be the winner...