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...times, each time admitting a blindfolded youth and an escort. These couples marched up the creaky steps, stood at last in a place where, in its long history, few ordinary mortals had set foot. The place: Harvard's Porcellian Club, other wise known as P.C. or "the Pore...
...many a Harvardman the Pore is only a name. But the blindfolded initiates - among whom were Thomas Gardiner, son of the Pore's grand marshal, and R. Fulton Cutting 2nd - knew that they had entered one of the world's most exclusive clubs. Here had fraternized some of the bluest U. S. bloods - nine Adamses, seven Lowells, eleven Cabots. If the Lowells speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots only to God, the Pore is where they hold their...
Next to Phi Beta Kappa, the Pore is Harvard's oldest club. Best-documented version of its founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
...Pore had as members James Russell Lowell, the two famed Oliver Wendell Holmeses (the author of Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the Supreme Court Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster...
...politician, but an ambitious careerist, Brauchitsch had studied hard during the years he spent in a swivel chair. He mastered his own specialty, artillery, then went on to pore over the more theoretical aspects of warfare. He became a firm believer in a strong defense as a prelude to any kind of warfare, and, with Adolf Hitler's, his eyes were turned to the East as the next battleground for the Reich...