Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Crane, manager of the East Asiatic Timber and Mining Co., does not feel as if he is carrying the white man's burden. He is fond of the indolent Siamese town of Luang Nakon, where he makes his headquarters. He likes the routine of his work and the evening drinks at the run-down sahibs' club. He enjoys his friendship with the only non-white member of the club, Major Chai Wut, the police chief. But in 1953, John Crane faces upheaval, knows it and resents it. "Why are they telling us to go?" he asks Major...
Lowell, who was a fanatic for bells, nearly dropped his copy of De Tintinnabulis when Charles Crane offered to supply Harvard with one genuine set of Russian church bells. The two men measured Lowell House tower, and discovered that there would be just enough room for twenty-seven tone worth, cast in eighteen different sizes and shapes. On October 10, 1930 the bells arrived in Cambridge. The work of Mr. Crane, who had gone to some little trouble importing them from Leningrad, seemed near completion...
Long before his donation, Crane had developed a taste for the Asiatic. While studying at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, he caught malaria, and was sent to the East to recuperate. Upon returning, he declared "I will spend the rest of my life studying Asia." Spending the next few years as President of the Crane Plumbing Company in Chicago, he managed a few trips to Russia. Prior to the Revolution, Crane began a movement within the Orthodox Church to repeal all dogma and ritual added since the Romanoffs. Success was nearly at hand when the Bolsheviks stormed Leningrad. All Crane could...
...difficulties involved in getting the bells into the tower proved so great, however, that many wondered whether Crane's effort had been worthwhile. A group of men spent four hours moving the largest one, a fourteen ton affair, from its truck, and it nearly crashed to the ground anyway. All the bells were stored in a shack near Gore Hall while scaffolding was built along the sides of the tower. One winter alone was consumed in hoisting the carillon to its final perch...
Organizers of the club on March 15 obtained the consent of C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, to serve as one of the group's faculty advisers. Since then, James R. Schlesinger, teaching fellow in Economics, has also agreed to sponsor the organization. The Conservatives have submitted to the Council the required list of at least ten club members...