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Father Acheson was a Scots-Ulstbiuian who lit out from Britain to Canada in 1881. He fought with the Queen's Own Rifles in the Indian Rebellion, then went into the Anglican ministry. After serving as curate of St. George's Church in New York, he settled down in the rectory in Middletown. He had married Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham (pronounced Good-rum), of the Gooderham & Worts distillers' clan; Gooderham money built a 16-room brick house on elmlined Broad Street in which the Achesons lived, and Mother was a social arbiter. But Father ran the family...
That fall he went to Yale, where he rowed No. 7 on the frosh crew. Says Acheson, archly: "Those who row No. 7 say it is the most important place." He never put on enough weight to row on the varsity, but another old Groton boy and Yale oarsman, Averell Harriman, admiringly remembers the Dean of those days. Says Harriman, with the air of a man making a lasting character judgment: "He was a good...
Acheson could take it. He went back to his law firm...
Three days later, Florida's New Dealing Senator Claude Pepper shocked spectators and his colleagues with an irresponsible, low-blow attack on the National Association of Manufacturers' ex-Chairman Ira Mosher. Pounding the desk, Pepper roared: "It was the poor people whose sons went to the battlefields, and a lot of the manufacturers' sons who stayed home and got rich." Said Witness Mosher quietly: "Three of my family died in the war." *Replied Pepper feebly: "Then you are an exception...
...lead changed hands twice before the visitors finally took command. Joe Kozol drew in the 121-pound class and Brown went ahead on Gray Michael's decision over Bob Abboud...