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...Change. Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, has submitted a list of 14 homes for consideration. Among the top contenders: Tregaron, the late Joseph E. Davies' 7½-acre wooded estate (the setting for the ballroom-party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: A Home for Hubert | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...Washington's shrewdest tax lawyers. Husband and wife together draw an estimated $200,000 to $225,000 a year, drive a 1953 Rolls-Royce to their office in a converted Victorian mansion, are now moving to a $250,000 house in Washington's Dumbarton Oaks area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Lawyer & Friend | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Professor Wolff serves on the Executive Committee of the Russian Research Center at Harvard and on the Board of Scholars of Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Institute in Washington. He is a trustee of Radcliffe College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wolff Appointed To History Seat For Balkan Work | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...Center is located in Georgetown, near the Harvard affiliated Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Center in Byzantine and Medieval Studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Pusey Dedicates Hellenic Center Buildings | 5/15/1963 | See Source »

This morning the Board will meet in Dumbarton Oaks to discuss the library's work as a research center in Byzantine and Medieval Studies and to inspect its new museum...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Kennedy Will Host Overseers Tonight As Board Begins Two-Day Meeting | 5/13/1963 | See Source »

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