European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse George Bush in a photo from the 1942 yearbook Academy Inan Over amass. And posing in his baseball uniform is Yale in late 40s. George bos by Hugh a. Mulligan associated press Eorge Bush has shed inc Bon Franklin glasses dropped his twang voice a nolo or two and now eschews Button Down Shir is anything to gel rid of the preppy image that dogs his run for president against Michael Dukakis Thorn s a tendency to have you i into a Mold the Republican vice president complained recently the Mold Lor me is a kind of Ivy league Oli isl and i resist Bush might have avoided the whole Eastern establishment Wasp wimp caricature had he Boon born in Columbus Ohio. Be his father or in St. Louise his Molher s clan or in Kingsport tenn., like older brother pres Coll or. Well almost. Pres Coll or. Did go to Yale As did George his Ihrck Brothers Lour in cts and cousins by the halt dozens. Still. Dad was a Midwest hardware Salesman before . Rubber absorbed his Small dim and transferred hint to Braintree Mas where George was bom on Juno 12.1924, in nearby Millon. A Transfer to the new York office Reio caled the family in the affluent commuter Lown of Greenwich conn., but they weren t established easterners until act turned o inc Simeni banking bought lha to room victorian House with a huge rolling Lawn on Grove Lane and became Moderator of the town meeting. Later years later when George was Oul of Yale and wild calling Lof Oil in Texas his father twice won election to the . Senate and became a Golling partner of Dwight Eisenhower. George at age 5 went olt to the Greenwich country Day school. From the Start he was a Good athlete thanks lot Long Dorothy Walker Bush who had made it to the finals of the girls National Tennis championship and is still going Strong Riding her Bike at 86, handing of Campaign meia Tuie. Physically she is a Small woman bul she is made of mighty stuff George wrote in a Mother s Day Salute three years ago Lor the Greenwich time newspaper. Nine months into her Lisl pregnancy she played baseball. Her last time up she Hil a Home run and without missing a base continued right Oil the Field to the Hospital to deliver sundays Aller episcopal services Al Christ Church there was always a baseball game on the Bush Lawn with George being Lett handed holding Down first base a position he excelled at when he captained the Yale nine Mlo the National collegiate finals and got to meet Babo Ruth poppy As to called him had Good hand to Eya coordination recalls retired time Lile executive Evan Ingels a classmate at the country Day school. He was a running Back on our football team Good also at soccer Lennis and wrestling. We were both a year younger than the others and rivals for Headon the class George was nicknamed Little then poppy Lor his hero worship of his maternal Grandfather George pop Walker a line athlete who donated the Walker cup to Golf. Grandpa Walker who presided Over those Blissful Summers in the rambling Ocearl Cronl House at Kennebunk porn Maine. That Bush now owns was a staunch Democrat until Roosevelt came along Roosevelt made him see red a Rind recalls. Ingels remembers staying Over Al the Bush Home on halloween and hiding Oul in the graveyard Afler squirting people wish a water pistol loaded with Green Ink and belting them Wilh a sock Fulio poppy i never knew him As anything else was a real Nice Guy decent and honest never a braggart maybe that s the trouble with Ine world today suddenly a Nice Guy is a wimp a was r shake his list at one Day fill Aboul the future leaders. Others might be presid mind. Ihen bul t he and his Broil breakfast in t Reading a pass values Especial were pleased w More than his a Shirley Flowe George s class patriarchal pres began Lor the 6 Lake this Young family Chau Fleuti the Rord or George went of became a prep Little Blue rowing Luggage of the i burst immediate venture near ii to smoke and v too Ball team a in Hoseay Public schools t of incr said ret1 George As an " none Lily just bul that s Abou handbook thai con act with Hir woo i would of Chomi suy to know George b the first Day i s came irom a Lai ready to come hustling. Bul a the Damn thing wearing the Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday f
