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["306.52"]Lloyd Hull has lived in Greenwich back 1958. "Summer Alley was a clay alley back we confused here," he says.
Lloyd Hull has lived in Greenwich back 1958. "Summer Alley was a clay alley back we confused here," he says.
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Q: How continued accept you lived in Greenwich?
A: Back 1958.
Q: How do you anticipate Greenwich has afflicted over the years?
A: It's developed up. Summer Alley was a clay alley back we confused here. I was the alone advocate on the alley back we contributed to get it paved -- and I committed the new alley for free. It's been a absolute alley anytime since. Our accouchement could comedy on it. Mary and I could booty walks on it and see campfires they fabricated in the woods.
Q: Are you married? How long?
A: Yes, to Mary. We were affiliated in 1957, in her aftermost year at Vassar. I was an old grad. I was a alum of the Columbia Grammar Academy in New York City, the chic of 1939. The academy is 250 years old. I accelerating from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Academy in 1943, and active up for the Navy.
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Q: Do you accept any children? Grandchildren?
A: We accept three children: Lisa Weicker, Victoria Sharp (she's a British subject) and Robert "Rob" Hull; nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Q: Are you retired?
A: No, actuality I am in my office. If you stop working, you're dead. And I've got to stick about for my wife. She's abounding of beans.
Q: What did you do back you formed abounding time?
A: After Penn I formed for my ancestors in the allowance business, and again went to New York Law Academy while alive at Salomon Brothers. I was a affiliate of both the Connecticut and New York Bar and lived out actuality alive out of New York. I again formed with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., and again in New York. I formed in the area of baby issues (under a actor dollars). I absitively to go into clandestine convenance with a accomplice in New York -- More Phillips & Hull. I was again with Midland Capital Corporation as accumulated admonition and secretary. I assuredly formed my own accepted convenance abutting out actuality ambidextrous with estates and trusts. I don't like litigation.
Q: What was the best important affair you abstruse in your work?
A: The No. 1 best important affair is that the greatest account was to be abutting to my wife and my kids. I've got abundant kids -- they're no slackers. Lisa is in absolute estate. Victoria is arch of the London Philharmonic, and my son Rob is the arch banking administrator of the Providence Armamentarium in Rhode Island. It's the better armamentarium in the country. He's done actual well.
Q: What was a cogent anamnesis or defining moment in your childhood?
A: I had astonishing parents. My dad was a advocate and in allowance too. My mother had been a teacher. My parents died young. My sister was my best friend. I was 18 back I absent my ancestor and 35 back I absent my mother. My mother was a Texan. My grandmother came over from England at age 16 and fabricated her way to Texas, area she affiliated my grandfather.
Q: What are your capital hobbies and interests?
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A: My ancestors -- and advancement my house.
Q: Do you accept a admired sport?
A: I like to swim. Back I was younger, it was tennis. I aloof had a pacemaker put in aftermost week. He (the doctor) did a acceptable job. It woke me up!
Q: Do you accept a admired book?
A: Lord Nelson books. The American Navy uses some of his cardinal tactics. And books on Jefferson -- he's an anomaly. He wouldn't chargeless the slaves. I like history. I adulation this country.
Q: Do you accept a admired assignment of art?
A: I like art and like to go to museums.
Q: What music do you accept to, and what is a admired allotment of music?
A: "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a favorite. The Greenwich Symphony -- we're there all the time, and the New York Philharmonic. I anticipate music stills the aboriginal beast.
Q: If you could acquaint the admiral of the United States one affair now, what would it be?
A: Get rid of this bloom affairs and get article practical. He is a ablaze academic but has had no acquaintance active any affectionate of an organization. Back he was a agent in Illinois, he did annihilation on his record. He's acceptable at accessible relations, but active a business you accept to accept some abstraction of the coaction with bodies and the economy.
["165.87"]Q: What achievements in your activity are you best appreciative of?
A: Survival. I'm not unreligious. I anticipate there's article electric that keeps us going. Every bearing describes it differently, from Jesus on down.
Q: If you had a abracadabra wand, what would you ambition for?
A: Peace in our time. Peace for my grandchildren.
Q: What, if anything, are you acutely anxious about?
A: Stability in our economy. What are we alive for -- if you accumulate afire money, you booty the amount away. How are we active this country? Our predecessors accept handed us the better allotment of capitalism any bearing has anytime had.
Q: Best allotment of admonition to accord to the adolescent generation?
A: Accumulate your adenoids clean, and authority those that you adulation dear.
Q: What brings you your greatest joy?
A: Seeing my ancestors advantageous and happy, and accomplishing things with Mary. At 91, I'm animated to be about and kicking.
Q: What are you attractive advanced to in life?
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A: I anticipate we've got everything. I'm attractive advanced to befitting it. I like the way we live. It's now aloof the two of us, a lot of acreage and a baby house.
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