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Lawrence Wood Robert Jr., called "Chip" because his father was called "Wood," is an ebullient, convivial Georgian of 51 who has lived up to his nickname. In 1933 Chip left his Atlanta architectural and engineering firm, which had consulted in some $250,000,000 worth of building projects before Depression, to help Businessman William Woodin as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Sober Henry Morgenthau relieved him of most of his important duties. But in Washington, where business often mixes with politics, Chip was meanwhile establishing a reputation as the Capital's greatest little mixer. After newshawks caught...
...Henry James and Proust, whose craftsmanship and insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent most...
Pickets disappeared from Harvard Square at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon when Georgian employees went back to work after a six-day strike...
...five-day old Georgian strike will probably end some time today, after both sides appear this morning before the State Labor Relations Board to settle the one remaining point of disagreement in a compromise contract, that of whether it is to terminate on March...
Willingness of the management to compromise is held to have resulted from three factors: unfavorable undergraduate opinion as shown by petitions sent to Verne Philbrook, Georgian president; the picketing of other Georgian restaurants in Cambridge; and the hearing before the State Labor Relations Board to investigate possible unfair labor practices which had been set for next Thursday...