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Picketing Promoter. At 38, Douglas could well be talking about himself. He remembers little about his early childhood except that his real name is Jonathan Aivaz (pronounced Avis), that he was born in Iran in 1921, first son of a millionaire Assyrian camel-caravan operator, and that his family fled to France during anti-Christian riots in the early 1920s. By 1928, the Aivaz family was in New Britain, Conn., flat broke. There were seven youngsters to feed by then, so Jonathan never finished high school. He worked his way across the country as a movie pressagent, wound up with...
...David G. Aivaz of New York, New York, A.B. Harvard, 1947, A.B. Harvard University, 1950, (English...
...David G. Aivaz '47 captured third prize, worth $100, for an essay on "Image and Theme in the Poetry of Dyland Thomas...
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