Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Immediately at the opening of the special session, Councillor Sullivan raised the reappointment issue and nominated his own candidate for manager; three other councillors presented other names; finally Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 placed in nomination schoolmaster Curry, the other four switched, and with startling abruptness the reign of John B. Atkinson had ended...
This year the C. C. A. still retained that majority, but two of the C.C.A. endorsed councillors--Crane and Deguglielmo--were distinctly dissatisfied with Atkinson's policies. They bolted from the other three, and teamed up with three independents to form the crucial majority...
Last week the old conqueror was moved. City architects, demolishing some buildings to give a clear vista toward one side of the big presidential palace which has replaced Pizarro's old palace, created a small park plainly in need of embellishment. So they simply sent around a crane which plucked the 6½-ton statue of Pizarro from its old base and set it in the park. The conqueror's bronze eyes are still within eyeshot of the plaza he founded, but, as one of his defenders indignantly protested, "they have shoved him from the parlor...
Faculty and departmental reaction was immediate and adverse. An unofficial committee headed by C. Crane Brinton '19, Chairman of the Department of History, felt that individual senior tutorial was essential, but that 8 to 12-man seminars could easily replace the Bender Report's 5-man group limit...
Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 introduced the speakers, and Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of History, acted as moderator...