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Willie Lurye was a mild-looking, curly-haired little fellow who would give a man the shirt off his back, people said. Like his Papa, who had been a cigar maker in Sam Gompers' union, he was hot for unions. Willie was a dress presser in the biggest in New York, the International Ladies' Garment Workers (405,000 members). With a wife and four kids to look after, Willie gave up a $180-a-week pressing job last fall to work for $80 as a special organizer: there were still some non-union no-good-nicks...
...biggest day of the biggest week of the single scull season closed last night with Dick Emmet ensconced as king of the University singles. Tomorrow many of yesterday's singles participants and seven Crimson eights will churn downstream for the festive American Rowing Association Regatta...
...only has he made the two Harvard models (plus a third yet to come of the University in 1677) but also the various models in the Peabody Museum--the Hopi Indians, the cliff dwellers, and the 23 models for the Harvard Forestry Department. These forestry models were Pitman's biggest job; in one series, he had to exhibit the changes in the vegetation of a typical New England farm from the Seventeenth century to the present. In each of the models, the trees and shrubs had to be perfectly reproduced so that forestry students could identify the different species--even...
Crimson rowers comprise the biggest part of an eight-oared shell and all of one four representing the Union Boat Club in the regatta. The colors of the Weld Boat Club, of Eliot House, and of the Newell squad will emblazon the oars of seven other eights. Three singles and a quad (four oarsmen plying eight oars) will also represent the Weld Boat Club. A double (two oarsmen and four oars, without a cox) have been working out of Weld in the past weeks but won't enter the regatta as plans now stand...
Three and possibly four assistant deans will resign next month in the biggest Dean's Office turnover since the end of the war, it was reported last night...