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...came to Washington in 1946 as the junior partner of his brother Joseph in their syndicated newspaper column "Matter of Fact." As scions of an old Republican Connecticut family, the Alsop boys were in a unique position. While more mundane journalists attended press conferences, the Alsops lunched with fellow Grotonian Dean Acheson or shot quail with then Secretary of State Christian Herter. But, unlike Joe, Stewart had no arrogance, either socially or journalistically. Said one friend: "Joe's the kind of guy who can rise from an interview with a famous source and say, 'Sir, you have just...
Gardiner's Eliot House roommate and fellow Grotonian, James M. C. Ritchie '48, recalled yesterday that he had eaten dinner with Gardiner on the night of his disappearance, but that they parted from their fourth floor room an hour later, Ritchie remaining to study...
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...
Reader Fletcher's strong Grotonian words fail to abash TIME, which simply quoted the "hideous article" of Columnist Hey wood Broun...
...many painful autums at least one person has pondered the plight of the friendless Freshman who reaches the Yard with a bag in one hand and shaking fingers in the other. It is hard for the popular Andoverite or Grotonian to understand the feeling of complete, bitter solitude which assails countless new students the first few days of their college career. The Union has tried to mitigate this condition by providing an excellent buffet supper on registration day, served by waitresses with motherly smiles. What with the awful immensity of Memorial Hall and the complexities of the registration card, University...