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...remember just what set him off," confesses Novelist Oliver La Farge, describing this painful encounter in his second year at Groton School. "Perhaps I had wrapped something in toilet paper when I was packing." Whatever the cause, the dart stuck. Throughout the day the inspired bully developed it "through Bumwad Inky to Bumptink to Bump, and finally to the chef d'oeuvre of his career - Bop. ... I fought him and was licked, that evening and several times more in the next few days. It was too late then. I was Bop. ... I had joined the outcasts...
This confession appeared last week in the foreword to a slim volume titled The American Revolution and Its Influence on World History, published by the Chicago Tribune at $1. Its author: the Tribune's xenophobic editor & publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick, Groton '99, Yale...
...voted for him; they had voted against Herbert Hoover. They knew him as a pretty good governor of New York, a man with a strong-chinned patrician face and the magic name of Roosevelt, a man with a broad Harvard accent and the wealthy, aloof heritage of Groton and Crum Elbow...
...Squire & the King. What said the Squire of Hyde Park, schooled at Groton and Harvard, to the Lord of Arabia, schooled in the Koran, the desert, the raid, the running horse, the harem? The only direct news was official, and it was sparse...
...Grey Mare. In Groton, N.Y., a farmer walked into a newspaper office, asked for a bottle of printer's ink to tint the eyebrows of his old horse...