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Stiff Exam. Since he was only 15 when he graduated from Exeter, his parents decided to take him and his younger brother Tom (now a historian-researcher for the Colonial Williamsburg restoration project) on a yearlong tour of the world. On his return, he entered Harvard in the same class (1938) as the late Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., recalls him as a bright, amiable fellow who might have gone far in politics -but not so far as his brother John. Schlesinger made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, seemed a cinch to win highest honors-until his final oral...
...middle of the Williamsburg Bridge, high above the inky East River, 1,700 passengers in two trains were suspended like riders on the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. "The wind would blow," said Mary Cronin Doyle, 18, "and the train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out?including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...
JAMES ROBERTSON College of William and Mary Williamsburg...
Rockefeller Jr. objected to the funny-looking American folk art that she sold his wife. Eventually it helped to furnish Williamsburg...
...much older. The Council is the direct successor of the Conference of Radcliffe Representatives, an annual event frequently held in places other than Cambridge. Philadelphia, Washington, Buffalo, Cincinnati, and New York all served as meeting places for the alumnae, with the last conference away from Cambridge held in Williamsburg...