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...Harrington Square, he erected a façade of innocuous jobs (publisher's assistant, bookkeeper, language teacher, corset salesman), took on Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical revolutionary, with a keen, mousetrap kind of mind that was wired always to orders from home...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra yesterday elected Robert L. Swaney '53 as its Manager. I. Austen Heyman '53 was chosen Promotional Manager, while Michael L. Greenebaum '55 was named Stage Manager. The elections took place during a reorganizational meeting...
...Sicily and Italy, the enlarging war in the Pacific and the massive preparations for the Normandy invasion. Yet Churchill found time to swoop down on laggard officials everywhere, keep a sharp eye on everything from poultry-feed supplies to stocks of playing cards, and make a run through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
...same issue of the American columnist Austen Lake wrote "I bet President James B. Conant wondered how it is that Princeton attracts ... regiments of burly foot-fast boys while Harvard gets only freshmen with webtoes' pronated feets, hollow chests, and soprano voices...
...Richard Austen Butler, 48> able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer. This makes him the Tories' No. 3 man, and heir to Britain's growing sterling debts, tum bling gold and dollar reserves and adverse balance of trade. Born in India, son of an academic fam (two of Harrow's headmasters have been Butlers), "Rab" Butler won highest hon ors at Cambridge (double "first" in French and history), married into the multi-million-dollar Courtaulds...