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...whole building smacks of clubness and Harvard, from the pheasants in the kitchen freezer waiting their turn to appear under glass, to the dozen squash courts and the manly bar. The first floor has the traditional reading room, liberally stocked with newspapers and magazines. Beyond it is the hall with its traditional back-gammon tables so popular with club members. Filling out most of the rest of the Floor with its enormous dimensions (50'X100'X3 1/2 stories) is Harvard Hall with its traditional chandeliers...
...Freezer for Pheasant
...recent years almost 200 makers of appliances have merged or liquidated. Last year International Harvester shucked off its refrigerator and freezer branches. La March Deep Freeze, a household word discontinued business. Thor Corp. dropped its washing-machine business. TV manufacturers liquidated by the handful or so out to bigger companies...
...around him in the White House were among the headliners in the Truman Administration scandals. Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's ever-present sidekick, began as early as 1945, helping a perfume manufacturer get around wartime travel restrictions to Europe and receiving, for his trouble, a deep freezer. Also on the deep-freezer list was White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly-convicted only this year of tax fraud conspiracy during his White House days. In 1947 Truman denounced grain speculators for driving prices higher, soon discovered that his personal physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, was one of those...
...were those of Influence Peddler James Hunt and Harry Vaughan. Hunt won fees from business firms on the strength of his claims that he could land Government contracts for them through his friendship with Vaughan and other Administration officials. Harry Vaughan virtuously denied all wrongdoing, claimed that the deep freezer had been just an "expression of friendship...