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...Groton, Mass...
Hollywood could never cast Columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. in its stock role of the slouch-hatted, wisecracking newsman. He does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...
...Pays to Reduce. Stewart Alsop, three years younger than his brother Joe, went to Groton and Yale, fought a more exciting war. He began with the British army, wound up with the French Maquis and a British bride. Until he teamed up with Joe, he had never written a news line...
...company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting down his activities in favor of more horseback riding near his Groton, Mass, home, Dumaine had a hand in running, as a director, a score of big Eastern companies...
...hand are the variegated products of a "democratized" admissions policy that has abandoned specialized entrance examinations and emphasized National Scholarships and geographical distribution. On the other is the half of each Freshman class that still comes from private schools, about 60 percent of this half ordinarily being graduates of Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Milton, and others of the "Grottlesex" schools. This dichotomy is not uniquely Harvard's, although it is uniquely marked at Harvard. It is a split that exists in some degree in many of the nation's colleges, and probably to a significant degree in other eastern...