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...campus and nursed the infant salmon until they grew into fingerlings. Then he washed them down a sluice into Lake Union, and they swam out into the Pacific. After four years, the college-bred salmon returned to the campus full grown, like old grads gathering for a class reunion...
...detailed biography, Critic Mark Schorer suggests that his volatile temper, his insatiable hunger for male companionship and female company, his manic alcoholism, his prankishness and exhibitionism, even his short and abortive acting career late in life, were the result of an emotionally starved childhood and adolescence. At a 1922 reunion dinner of his Yale class, Lewis said: "When I was in college, you fellows didn't give a damn about me, and I'm here to say that now I don't give a damn about...
...unabundant economy made one's ties to a single and unbroken career financially more binding. Fifty years ago the university was the preserve of a more or less chosen few, who raised few questions about its purpose. These things have changed and those who return now to Harvard for reunion will note that even here there has been change. We shall change further. And perhaps it will happen that those who return twenty-five years hence will have come for a different purpose
...Needs You." Dillon, with his banking and diplomatic experience, was obviously an excellent choice for Kennedy's purpose. They had first met in 1956 at Harvard, when Dillon was grand marshal at the 25th reunion of his class and Senator Kennedy the winner of an honorary degree. After the ceremony, they dropped by the select Spec Club (both men were members) to chat, later became friends and occasional golfing companions. But when President-elect Kennedy asked to come to Dillon's house (Dillon thought it should be the other way around) and came through several days later with...
...family reunion time for the Dwight D. Eisenhowers. While Ike and his three brothers got away from it all at a lodge near Watersmeet in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (reported the ex-President: "Fishing has been very fine and my golf very bad"), Mamie and her sister, Mrs. G. Gordon Moore, sadly met at the East Denver home where they grew up and where their mother died last September. While pondering the sale of the house, the sisters packed off many of its furnishings to Goodwill Industries, only to hastily retrieve a couple of items (including their mother...