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Handicap. In Englewood, N.J., 6 ft. 5 in. Harold Abrams drew protests as Democratic county committeeman. Complaint: he could peek over the voting booth curtains...
Girls from Radcliffe, comments on world events from a member of the Faculty and from a Junior, music from classical composers, a committeeman from Phillips Brooks House, and blues from Basin Street all fitted smoothly into the Crimson Network's first program of the College year...
...When Morse suggested to a faculty committee planning new biological laboratories that they could save $30,000 by installing steel instead of wood cabinets, a committeeman protested: "Why, Mr. Morse, should we save $30,000 when it will only have to be given back to the donor...
...idea of teaching moppets the basic facts of economics dawned two years ago on the fertile mind of a Boston school committeeman, Joseph Lee Jr. A Brahmin, blueblood, Harvard graduate, 40-year-old Joe Jr. is the eccentric liberal grandson of a founder of the Boston banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. and a great-great-grandson of Thomas H. Perkins, who turned down a Cabinet post as Secretary of the Navy under George Washington because he owned more ships than the Navy did. His father, the late Joe Lee Sr., was a famed humanitarian who once made a pilgrimage...
Died. Kenneth Simpson, 45, for 23 days Congressman from New York's 17th Congressional District, from 1937 to 1940 New York's Republican National Committeeman; of heart disease; in Manhattan...