After former president John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Groth remembers new security measures being taken at the magazine to protect the office. "Sam the shoeshine man was no longer able to get access and offer in situ shines," she wrote. "My desk was moved from its spot near the back staircase to a closed and windowed booth out by the elevators. All people with business on eighteen, and even those with offices there, had to be cleared and buzzed through locked doors by me."
Groth finally left the New Yorker in 1978 to pursue a career in academics.
