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...Under Secretary Dean G. Acheson of Groton and Yale, an impeccable lawyer, a man with an elastic mind, a political middle-of-the-roader. Next comes Counselor Ben Cohen, of the University of Chicago and Harvard, a thinker, a man of strong ideology (New Deal), a shy, unobtrusive worker who looks and acts more like a gentle professor than a man who has drafted most of the important new laws of the last decade...
...from Groton. Secretary Acheson can be expected to add new life to Jimmy Byrnes's department. The son of an Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, he went to Groton and Yale (1915), was an ensign in World War I, took his law degree at Harvard. An honor graduate, he was snapped up by the late, great Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis as secretary, soon went on to a potent Washington law firm (Covington, Burling & Rublee...
...name "Bop" still haunted him. It was not until he was 36 that a "woman of unusual quality, great perception and remorseless persistence" forced the hated word across his unwilling lips. "Then," he writes, "and only then, I ceased to be afraid, and then at last I slew the Groton...
...think you're nice." There, amid the absinthe and saratoga chips of his French Quarter parties, La Farge would tell himself over & over, "Well, Oliver, you certainly have nice friends." But for all the call of the wild Southwest and the high-jinks of Mardi-Gras, the Groton Boy was still alive. When Laughing Boy hit the jackpot, Oliver bee-lined it for a Park Avenue apartment and all the trimmings...
Beginning a new assignment in the Air Transport Command, as he finished his autobiography, Major La Farge was sure at last that he saw a new world of reality ahead for him. He was sure he had said goodbye forever to the un-Grotonian Groton Boy who had long been uncomfortable in both an old school tie and an open-necked shirt...