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...mills and the railroads and the banks and the insurance companies, but they ran the men who did. To a somewhat smaller extent, but still to a considerable one, the inheritors of their positions continue to do so and thus continue to give Boston Society its appearance of permanence." Groton Headmaster Endicott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boston's Closed Corporation | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Tail Is Better." At 14, at prep school: "Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah. Groton 46-St. Marks 0. I am hoarse, deaf, and ready to stand on my cocoanut. Our team played a wonderful game." Sara Delano Roosevelt sent him stamped, self-addressed envelopes to make sure that he would write often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Dearest Mama | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Fowl Deeds. In Center Groton, Conn., 74-year-old Mrs. John Yetter surprised a fox in her chicken coop, doughtily grabbed it by the tail, gave it a whirl, bashed its head against the ground. In Willington, Conn., Mary Cski, 75, heard a commotion among her hens, hustled down, caught a marauding 8-lb. chicken hawk with her bare hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Married. Mary Peabody Fitzgerald, 30, daughter of the Right Rev. Malcolm Peabody, Episcopal Bishop of Central New York, granddaughter of the late Dr. Endicott Peabody, famed headmaster of Groton School; and Ronald Tree, fiftyish, M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning in the Churchill Cabinet, rich cousin of rich Publisher Marshall Field III; both for the second time; in Huntington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Groton, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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