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...Neil Plantefaber, T. S. Smlty John White and Jim Rafferty strode of to meet Dave Schneider and Bob Weeks going up for some of the same. Weekend is the only man in the class beside Mr. Lindsay nursing a ski injury. He get his taking a suicide leap at Groton last week. Also at the Statler was the horn looking for the colt with no success "T Lad" was long ago occupied elsewhere...
...Asia's few Christian countries ("I too am an Asiatic," Stalin greeted the Japanese Foreign Minister in 1941). So Stalin went to a Jesuit seminary to become a priest. But he soon left. At an age (15) when Winston Churchill was at Harrow and Franklin Roosevelt at Groton, young Joseph Djugashvili was organizing revolutionary cells...
Died. The Reverend Dr. Endicott Peabody, 87, founder (in 1884) and head master emeritus of Groton School; in Groton, Mass. A robust legend to generations of schoolboys, Dr. Peabody retired as headmaster in 1940, was recently the subject of a biography, Peabody of Groton (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week, he taught a usual morning class in sacred theology, lunched, undertook to drive the wife of a former master to the railroad station. On the way, he stopped his car by the road and died...
...which Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick have in common is their headmaster. As prep-school boys both stood-and perhaps still stand, a little-in awe of the most famed U.S. headmaster of his generation: the founder of small, ultra-swank Groton School. Endicott Peabody, a living legend at 87, retired from Groton's headmastership in 1940-to a new house just off the campus. Last week he received his first full-length biography, Peabody of Groton (Coward McCann; $5), based in large part on his persistent and prodigious correspondence with...
Married. Lieut. (j.g.) Endicott ("Chub") Peabody II, 23, Harvard's All-America guard in 1941, son of the Rt. Rev. Malcolm Endicott Peabody, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, grandson of Groton School's famed founder Endicott Peabody; and Barbara Welch Gibbons, 22, Bermuda socialite; in Manhattan...