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Obscure Congressman. Hiss was well-launched on a brilliant career when scandal struck. He had been a student of Felix Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, executive secretary at the Dumbarton Oaks conference that laid the foundation for the United Nations. He went to Yalta with F.D.R. in 1945, specialized in Far Eastern affairs at State, and was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when his world collapsed...
...Assume risk of loss rather than insuring Fine Arts in Dumbarton Oaks Museum--value $7,978,588--Annual premium and record of losses last 10 years. (Fogg and Peabody do not insure Harvard owned Fine Arts...
Prior to his appointment to the Corporation, Kane advised Conant on educational policy issues. On the Corporation, he was known for his fundraising and his special concern for Harvard's non-Cambridge outposts, like the Byzantine Studies Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington and Renaissance research center at Villa I Tatti, near Florence, Italy...
...dean of the Faculty has charge of about 40 separate budgets. About half of these are departmental budgets, and the rest are those of related institutions, such as the Arnold Arboretum and Dumbarton Oaks...
STRAVINSKY'S Dumbarton Oaks Concerto is dedicated neither to the Harvard Byzantine Center nor to the United Nations conference. It was commissioned by the original owners. of Dumbarton Oaks for their thirtieth wedding anniversary. It is a light, lively piece, charming and remarkably entertaining. The piece is particularly taxing on the brasses and woodwinds, and they performed beautifully. The Concerto deliberately parallels the third Brandenburg in many ways, especially in the opening theme and the three part violin and viola sections. But, although it parallels the Bach piece, it does not resemble it, nor is it based on Bach...