Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expatriate Nostalgia. With more vodka came wistful recollections of Birrell's fieldstone showplace in fashionable New Hope, Pa., where he once kept a shiny, vintage fire engine, and reportedly entertained such celebrities as his friend the master swindler Serge Rubinstein, and some of Mickey Jelke's choicer, $100-a-night call girls. "I always took a big interest in the volunteer fire department in New Hope," said Old Fire Buff Birrell. "Volunteer firemen are a great thing in rural America." He also liked the autumn hunting. But "my house and nine-acre farm are in litigation now. They...
...forward Armando Garces is known throughout Ivy territory for his propensity for trampling goalies. Garces will be joined on the attack by insides Bob Pearson and Willem Van Den Toorn. Arnold Hetzer leads a strong halfback corps, and Dick Press paces the defense from his fullback position. Goalie Denny Master has been difficult to score on so far this year...
...Master Bullitt says he will "encourage" students to pack up and leave his great new structure, but he will be sorely disappointed. Few, if any, wish to go to the troubles of furnishing new suites or of leaving the comforts of modern living; and since the Master has foresworn any methods smacking of coercion, he probably cannot select a certain number to move from the House into Mather. At the same time, the suggested solution of moving Quincy students into Mather from Claverly singles out a small group which should receive better rooms. Having suffered for a year in Claverly...
...Yale Russian Chorus will sing in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room Sunday at 3 p.m. Ford Foundation funds will pay for the concert, Master David E. Owen announced yesterday...
...Master's situation is an extreme one, however. Few other wives of the Faculty have so thorough a connection with the college. Mrs. Fainsod, for example, has found time to hold a job of her own for almost twenty years. Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration at Harvard under Prof. Paul Buck, she has also worked as an administrative assistant in the Russian Research Center, as an assistant to the Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous...