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...Varsity crew will be the guests of the Harvard Club, while the other boats that composted last spring at New London will attend as the guests of Herrick, Benefactor of rowing at Harvard for many years...
...Szigeti must have known what they were in for when they joined Petrillo's union, for Little Caesar Petrillo has long vowed to bring the Boston Symphony to heel. It is now the only big non-union orchestra in the U.S. Following the policy of its late benefactor Colonel Henry Lee Higginson, the Symphony pays union-scale wages and pensions, but believes that union limitations on rehearsals, hirings and firings would do it artistic harm...
Having paid a visit to the university's statue of his distinguished ancestor, Refugee John Harvard Baker, 9, direct descendant of Harvard's first big benefactor, broadcast disappointedly to his father in Scarborough, England: "He doesn't look like...
...granddaughters of Ogontz' chief benefactor, Philadelphia's Civil War Banker Jay Cooke, attended the school. It was when the Chestnut Street Female Seminary moved to Cooke's suburban estate, in 1883, that Ogontz came into being. The estate was named Ogontz after a celebrated Indian Chief from Putin Bay, Ohio, who often visited Cooke on his way to negotiate with the Government. The school took over the name, kept it when it moved again, in 1916, to its present quarters. Principal Sutherland explains: "He was a very good Indian...
Their paradoxical benefactor was Louisiana's Huey Long, who had simpler notions of salvation. From the millions lavished by Huey to endow Louisiana State University with a nonpareil stadium, football team and campus, three ex-Rhodes scholars, named Robert Penn Warren, then 29, Cleanth Brooks Jr., 28, and Charles W. Pipkin, 35, managed in 1935 to get a cut of $10,000 a year for a quarterly review...