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...Calm and courtly, Harriman became a bridge expert at Yale (class of 1913), coached crew and rowed in the same shell with Dean Acheson, later was an eight-goal polo player at Long Island's Meadow Brook club. Even today, dismounted, the slim six-footer is acknowledged by Hobe Sound (Fla.) residents to be a champion croquet strategist...
...enjoy it." The resort enjoyed a considerable revival with the younger international set when John F. Kennedy, son of longtime winter residents, spent a couple of Christmas vacations 'there as President. Now younger socialites seek the more informal social life of Barbados, Hobe Sound, Nassau or Acapulco. Palm Beach is primarily a playground for older Eastern and Mid-western families. Notable among them are Vanderbilts, Phippses, Dodges, Guests and Sanfords. The top social leaders are Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Mrs. Post, and Mar-A-Lago is one of the liveliest places in town...
Died. The Rev. George Clair St. John, 88, longtime (1908-47) headmaster of Choate, who turned a tiny Connecticut establishment of 35 students into one of the U.S.'s foremost prep schools with an enrollment of 600 and the highest of academic rankings; of cancer; in Hobe Sound, Fla. "The Old Head," as his boys called him, forged Choate in his image; strongly Episcopal in his insistence on compulsory chapel, staunchly ethical in his devotion to the honor system, fresh and human in his habit of occasionally dismissing classes for a hike in the mountains. John F. Kennedy...
...Hobe Lewis was both the predicted and the predictable choice. When he came to the Digest in 1942, his only experience was in advertising; everything he learned about journalism he learned from the Wallaces. Lewis proved a good student and rose rapidly on the masthead. He had a thorough working knowledge of the business side of publishing, but he also became, say his colleagues, one of the best story editors in the business...
...were Prevelant ze Gaute, unt Docker, Adenold getting so friendly? You might well arsk. Why did Harrassed MacMillion go golphing mit Bob Hobe? Why is Frank Cummings and the T.U.C. against the common Margate? You might well arsk. Why is the duck of Edincalvert a sailing mit Udda Fogs? Why did Priceless Margarine unt Bony armstrove give Jamaika away? You might well arsk. Why won't friendly Trumap give his Captive his pension...