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...Copley String Quartet plays quartets of Haydn and Beethoven. Dunster Library...
Harvard is like a coquettish woman, always tempting you with its glories while holding them back. From another Class Ode, by Henry Copley Greene...
Shortly after he joined Stefani had his first round of important negotiations, with the Copley Plaza management. Although wages then were low--averaging less than $20 a week, an amount a Cooks member now earns in about half a day--Stefani decided to focus the negotiations on getting a regular...
...Rice, the owner of the Copley, said to me, 'You crazy Englishman, why do you want a steady day off?'" he says. "I says, Mr. Rice, I came to America and I'm a little disappointed. I don't have any family here. Mr. Rice, I like women. I can't even make an appointment with a prostitute because I don't have a steady day off.' And we got that...
...eight people showed up, a third to which 25 people came, and so on. At one point in the drive Local 186 had 15 cents in its treasury. The local got its charter and Stefani took over as business agent on February 11, 1937, but kept working at the Copley until 1963. Only once, in 1941, did someone run against him for business agent, but Stefani swamped...