Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his student days at Brown University, "Johnny Rock" overcame some of his shyness, won a Phi Beta Kappa key and the heart of pretty Abby Aldrich, the daughter of Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. At 23, the young man entered his father's austere offices at 26 Broadway, first filling the inkwells and performing other humble chores. Four years later he and Abby were married. When he asked her father for her hand, and awkwardly tried to explain that he could support her properly, Senator Aldrich gently changed the subject...